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Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't know.


Cate Blanchett


#blonde #cannot #frank #great #i

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.


Theodore Dreiser


#feelings #great #inaudible #links #little

I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.


John Henry Carver


#came #canberra #capital #car #did

We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot let the laws become a dead letter through vagueness. In this view it is clear that an administrative commission can render invaluable service.


John Bates Clark


#afford #any #become #broken #business

The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal.


Herbert Croly


#actual #adequate #american #american life #aspiration

I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions.


Michael Cunningham


#again #along #behave #closely #constantly

I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was receiving. It was only about ten years ago, when I finally put it back in my show because so many people were asking for it, that I understood 'Society's Child' real impact.


Janis Ian


#ago #asking #back #because #child

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.


Karl Lagerfeld


#fashion #i #i can #kinds #moral

Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition.


Murray Gell-Mann


#changes #chaos #condition #course #indefinitely

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.


Edgar Lee Masters


#boat #end #life #longing #madness






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