Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman) Quotes
I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends of mine were willing to take charge of me if I would rather be with them than in the asylum, I was only too glad to give my consent.

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Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.
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I'll sleep when I'm dead.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I shall always be a priest of love.
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Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.
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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
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I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
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At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
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I think there needs some attention to be paid to what sport is going to represent to young people: should it be viewed in the competitive, team-oriented sense that it is now, or does it become a vehicle for betting, which may, in effect, change the atmosphere in the stadiums and the arenas?
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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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I graduated from the University of Whatever.
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What I find is that when young people find a brand they relate to, that they feel speaks to them, they want it in every format they can get.
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After a big war a nation doesn't want another for a generation or more.
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The reality is, the movies that were most impactful to me growing up, when I decided I wanted to make movies, I was going to see Woody Allen double features with my brother, back when they had double features.
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If people try to cut sugar out completely, they often splurge later. That isn't a good idea.
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The great background question about the Labour governments of the sixties is whether with a stronger leader they could have gripped the country's big problems and dealt with them. How did it happen that a cabinet of such brilliant, such clever and self-confident people achieved so little? In part, it was the effect of the whirling court politics demonstrated by 'In Place of Strife'.
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I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends of mine were willing to take charge of me if I would rather be with them than in the asylum, I was only too glad to give my consent.