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Rebecca Inspirational Quotes (586)

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It's really difficult to get good information, and there's a reason for that. They're not letting journalists in. Whenever something really bad is happening, we always are dealing with uncertain information. Certainly what is happening there is qualitatively different from what happening in Abyei.
Rebecca Hamilton
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If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow.
Rebecca Pidgeon
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I was one of those little girls who practiced signing autographs since I was 5 years old.
Rebecca Black
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Credibility is a basic survival tool.
Rebecca Solnit
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I'm incredibly cheesy. I'm all about happy endings and all of that.
Rebecca Mader
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Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.
Rebecca West
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The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were no longer mountains, and afterward mountains were again mountains could be interpreted as an alleory about [the perpetual paradox that when one is closest to a destination one is also the farthest).
Rebecca Solnit
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The process of transformation consists mostly of decay.
Rebecca Solnit
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The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has a solution implicit in its own nature, though not yet formulated by the intellect.
Rebecca West
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Because of the failure of religion to offer satisfying answers to an increasing number of people, it's time for philosophy to address forcefully these questions that everybody is wondering about.
Rebecca Goldstein
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My first album is a lot of my personal experiences. I wanted people to relate to what I've been through.
Rebecca Ferguson
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We are all indigenous people on this planet, and we have to reorganize to get along.
Rebecca Adamson
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There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists.
Rebecca West
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We need science. We need empirical evidence. We can't just use mathematical reasoning to deduce the nature of the world.
Rebecca Goldstein
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Sometimes I go to sleep thinking, I don't like this painting. But then I wake up in the morning, look at it again and think, Actually, that's not so bad.
Rebecca Horn
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There is nothing superstitious about forcing bad consequences for the hubris of paternalistic utopianism. Humanity should never be frozen into a vision of the best. A creative society must be willing to tolerate some degree of instability because creativity is inherently unstable.
Rebecca Goldstein
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Mum always taught us that compassion and kindness were the most important things in life, that it was better to be kind than right.
Rebecca Gibney
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I love science fiction stuff - I'm a bit of a dweeb like that.
Rebecca Mader
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Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write her out of the story ... The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.
Rebecca Solnit
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I may be an optimist.
Rebecca De Mornay
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For people to come to you and say, 'Would you like to be a part of our show?' after years of 'Please tell me I'm good enough'... I can't tell you how wonderful it feels.
Rebecca Mader
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The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated he forgets truths which are too simple.
Rebecca West
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All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.
Rebecca West
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International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.
Rebecca West
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