Whit Stillman Quotes

I don't think there's anything cliche feminine about Jane Austen. And, anyway, her earliest champions were Sir Walter Scott and the Prince Regent.

Whit Stillman

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ThinkChampionsAnythingHerPrince

There are 435 members of Congress. There's one 'Morning Joe' show. Hopefully, we can keep hammering the argument that you can disagree with other people and have debates but remain civil.

Joe Scarborough

MorningPeopleYouArgumentCongress

The price of self-empowerment is what I call it. Somebody who thinks outside the box.

Andrew McCarthy

PriceOutsideBoxCallSomebodyWho

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.

John Owen

FoodManExerciseTemptationKnife

I haven't read the 'Twilight' books. But it's everywhere so I feel like I know it. Edward, Bella, Jacob, etc. but... I haven't read them.

Max Irons

FeelKnowTwilightI Feel LikeBooks

I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.

Ann Bancroft

LearningChildhoodSchoolPeopleMe

I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.

Michael Clarke Duncan

LoveMyselfMeActingTryLittle

It's the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I'm a daydreamer; I don't feel in harmony with my epoch or the societies I live in.

Amin Maalouf

LiveRelationshipWorldRealityFeel

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

John Piper

WorldIndependenceDangerousSin

More than half of Guatemalans are pureblooded Indians, descendants of the proud Maya-Quiche tribes. In their mist-shrouded villages, the Indians worship the corn god and the rain god, only vaguely concerned with the political entity known as Guatemala.

Stephen Kinzer

GodRainProudPoliticalMoreCorn

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

Steve Martin

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He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

Sigmund Freud

EyesLipsBetrayalSilentSeeOut

My mother is extraordinary. She understood me and never tried to hold me back.

Robbie Robertson

MotherMeBackNeverSheHold

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