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Rebecca Inspirational Quotes (586)

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They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are the old language of the imagination one of the ten thousand tragedies of their disappearance would be a silencing of this speech.
Rebecca Solnit
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I'm voraciously looking to express myself in my work. I love my work.
Rebecca De Mornay
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Sometimes I'm so tired, I look down at what I'm wearing, and if it's comfortable enough to sleep in, I don't even make it into my pajamas. I'm looking down, and I'm like, 'T-shirt and stretchy pants? Yup, that's fine. It's pajama-y, good night.'
Rebecca Romijn
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Be good, kind, and friendly to the receptionist. She's had a hard day.
Rebecca Pidgeon
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I am lucky in that I love what I do, but it can still be hard to be away from the kids for long lengths of time. At the end of the day, all I want is to be with my kids, but it's worth it to create a future for my family.
Rebecca Ferguson
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If we could only put God first, maybe this ugly trend could one day be reversed.
Rebecca St. James
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Don't get me wrong - I love London, and still have an apartment there. But it is also a hard city and it wears you down.
Rebecca Loos
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Yes. I've been asked to pose nude, but I never have, and I probably never will.
Rebecca Romijn
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The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.
Rebecca Solnit
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the law, like art, is always vainly racing to catch up with experience.
Rebecca West
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I hate plastic surgery. I have a horror of any kind of knife. I don't like it.
Rebecca De Mornay
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Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried to forget anyway, and to ignore the fact that I was remembering you all the time.
Rebecca Stead
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Every walker is a guard on patrol to protect the ineffable.
Rebecca Solnit
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America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.
Rebecca Harding Davis
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I had a glorious father, I had no father at all.
Rebecca West
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sentences were used by man before words and still come with the readiness of instinct to his lips. They, and not words, are the foundations of all language. ... Your cat has no words, but it has considerable feeling for the architecture of the sentence in relation to the problem of expressing climax.
Rebecca West
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I roam around a lot in my territory, but what I learn at one end inflects and opens up my understanding at the other.
Rebecca Solnit
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I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations that have to be honored, and a legal system which can be trusted to step in when that sense fails.
Rebecca West
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In fact, it’s the very impersonality of impersonal knowledge that renders such knowledge the most ethically potent of all.
Rebecca Goldstein
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The contrast between the two, the sweetness and the badness, wrenches the heart of the lover as such sweetness on its own would not, and the lover shudders all the more at dread of the beloved's recklessness, for the sake of the sweetness that is there, and the shudder only makes more violent the shuddering that announces love.
Rebecca Goldstein
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I think the humanities always have to take science, our great knowledge that we get from science, into account, but then try to answer the human questions and try to make sense out of our lives, taking into account all of the scientific knowledge.
Rebecca Goldstein
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Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans, most of them white. And they did so on the same campus—and at the very same time—that state officials were conducting the infamous Tuskegee syphilis studies.
Rebecca Skloot
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Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.
Rebecca West
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Most people have to date or court other people before they meet the one.
Rebecca St. James
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