Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman) Quotes
I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like.Nellie Bly
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
Olympia Dukakis -
I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
Larry Bird -
Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
Candice Bergen -
My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
Gary Hume -
Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
Rafael dos Anjos -
I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
Candy Crowley
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
Taslima Nasrin -
I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
Zoe Foster Blake -
Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
Ferdinand Marcos -
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Saint Augustine -
The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
Illinois Jacquet -
In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
Irwin Shaw
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.
Ian Hamilton Finlay -
Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
Barbara Jordan -
And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.
Ulrich Beck -
I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.
Dale Earnhardt -
When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.
Florence Griffith Joyner
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For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.
Honore de Balzac -
I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy.
Jesse Jackson -
I can’t go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.
Donald Knuth -
I feel like my convictions and my passions come from my very personal experience and the life that I've led. I feel the very naturally tendency to stand up for and use my voice for the things that I know about and the things that I feel passionate about.
America Ferrera -
The Hunting Bayou and Greens Bayou watersheds have experienced major flooding over the years and are crying out for investment to protect the hundreds of thousands of residents and businesses in those areas.
Gene Green -
I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like.
Nellie Bly