Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes
In his leisure Clayton read, often aloud to his wife, from the store of books he had brought for their new home. Among these were many for little children - picture books, primers, readers - for they had known that their little child would be old enough for such before they might hope to return to England.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
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I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.
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The two things that hit you when you meet someone are, first, how they're visually put together and then, what they tell you with the tone of their voice - whether or not they're to be taken seriously.
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I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
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I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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I would like to do something that pushes me as an actress to make me better. I would love to do something dramatic or crazy. I think that would be so much fun.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.
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Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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The heart of Univision – and what we do – is here in Miami.
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The U.K. has been very progressive about on-demand, and the iPlayer has been a great invention. It has trained a generation of viewers to expect on-demand - unfortunately, it trains them to expect free!
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Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books will probably not be suffering water damage in the basements of their authors' houses 20 years from now. But historically, anyway, that's not the way the novelistic ecology works.
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Yazoo was Vince's sound ultimately. At the time Vince and I got together he had only recorded one album with Depeche and Depeche were to go on to greater things.
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Both poetry and lyrics and all visual arts draw their power from their ability to express abstractions of reality. ...that is a feature of the musical brain.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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In his leisure Clayton read, often aloud to his wife, from the store of books he had brought for their new home. Among these were many for little children - picture books, primers, readers - for they had known that their little child would be old enough for such before they might hope to return to England.
