Mark Twain Quotes
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You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
Kate Millett
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The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
Daniel D. Palmer
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
H. P. Lovecraft
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
Olivia Wilde
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If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.
P. J. O'Rourke
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
Yehuda Berg
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
Oriana Fallaci
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
Okky Madasari
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
Orlando Bloom
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
Malcolm McDowell
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The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan.
Barton Gellman
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Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.
Hanoi Hannah
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
Mallory Ortberg
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I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.
Rachel Kushner
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
Baruch Spinoza
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I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
T. C. Boyle
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Salvador Dali
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A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
Karl Kraus
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I understand when people think dressage is boring. But while your standard horse is like driving a Fiesta, our horses are like driving Formula One cars. I can't breathe without the horse reacting. You are training another being to become really responsive and athletic and powerful.
Lee Pearson
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The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check.
John Bates Clark
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To have the chance to see your music be elevated and to have almost universally positive response to that music, makes me feel better every day. I feel more confident and inspired, and that's fun.
John Roger Stephens
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My mother's people are Old Order Mennonite - horse and buggy Mennonite, very close cousins to the Amish. I grew up in Lancaster County and lived near Amish farm land.
Beverly Lewis
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Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Mark Twain