Deborah Harkness Quotes

I found a 'lost' manuscript called the Book of Soyga that had once belonged to Queen Elizabeth I's court astrologer, John Dee, in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Everybody thought it was the missing key to Dee's interest in magic. Of course, it wasn't really lost. It was there, in the catalog.

Deborah Harkness

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Even if you're working a day-to-day job in the meantime to support your creative endeavors, you shouldn't give up, and make sure you don't lose focus.

Amber Stevens

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I was possibly shy. I don't know why some people are shy and some aren't. Some people blush very easily.

Roger Moore

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Nothing could do more to help the world's poor than to make fossil fuels cheap and plentiful.

Robert Zubrin

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The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

Mason Cooley

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One of the appeals of markets, as a public philosophy, is they seem to spare us the need to engage in public arguments about the meaning of goods. So markets seem to enable us to be non-judgmental about values. But I think that's a mistake.

Michael Sandel

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I know a few expressions. I know what Hilary Clinton basically says in Russian when you translate her into Russian over and over and over is, 'izvinite pozhaluista.' That's, 'excuse me please, excuse me please.' Let's reset things. That's not the way you deal with folks. You show strength if you made a mistake.

Louie Gohmert

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Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.

Jason Ritter

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Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent.

Dennis Prager

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I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.

Brad Paisley

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I'm quite a reserved person, a bit shy at first when I don't know someone. I like to have a laugh and a joke; people have seen that in me.

Anthony Martial

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For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.

Avery Brundage

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The truth is hip hop has always complemented jazz and vice versa, but there's always been this communication barrier that exists based on music to lyrics.

Thundercat

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