Bert Lance Quotes
All these years, they've been giving lip service to saying that we are a party that is inclusive instead of exclusive. We've said the Democratic Party has a great big umbrella, and everybody can be comfortable under that umbrella. If they didn't mean it, then it ought to be pulled apart.
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.
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Niemand ist so beflissen, immer neue Eindrücke zu sammeln, als derjenige, der die alten nicht zu verarbeiten versteht.
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A glad zest and hopefulness might be inspired even in the most jaded and ennui-cursed, were there in our homes such simple, truthful natures as that of my heroine, and it is in the sphere of quiet homes-not elsewhere-I believe that a woman can best rule and save the world.
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We do not want a religion that deceives us for our own good.
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Develop a built-in bullshit detector.
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All these years, they've been giving lip service to saying that we are a party that is inclusive instead of exclusive. We've said the Democratic Party has a great big umbrella, and everybody can be comfortable under that umbrella. If they didn't mean it, then it ought to be pulled apart.
