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I admire Eudora Welty. 'Delta Wedding' is a book I've given as a present to numerous women. Eudora Welty rocks. She writes such jewel-like, fine, refined short stories.
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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As the platform and protocol become more ingrained in society, get built into products and services, and basically become more of the mesh of society, just like the Internet, companies and people will need to own Bitcoin to play on its rails.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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I live with my family on the top of a hill in the country, and during the days, my house is quiet, save for the occasional excitement of the FedEx truck heading up the driveway. I write.
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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If the constitution goes, I go.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
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This world is very good as if we do good deeds then we will get its fruits. World is bitter for those who are live their life with corruption or sins.
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The idea of going into the property business and collecting rent four times a year and waiting for five-year rent reviews has limited appeal.
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If you did something in 1975 that you deeply regret and that you now can recognize as having been profoundly irresponsible, for example, the only way to be lifted out of deep regret and the pain over it is through atonement - through the kind of remorse that leads to genuine atonement, the making of amends, and forgiveness of self and others.
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The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation.
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Communities need to feel that they can accommodate people. Rather than feeling that it's not possible to integrate and that the stress and strain on housing and public services is too great.
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It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
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I admire Eudora Welty. 'Delta Wedding' is a book I've given as a present to numerous women. Eudora Welty rocks. She writes such jewel-like, fine, refined short stories.
