L. Frank Baum Quotes
Dorothy said nothing. Oz had not kept the promise he made her, but he had done his best. So she forgave him. As he said, he was a good man, even if he was a bad Wizard.
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In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.
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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
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Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
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We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way.
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My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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Ultimately love is everything.
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During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
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None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.
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I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.
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There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
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I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.
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I don't know if I'm a method actor.
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I did green screen for the first time! I wouldn't like to do a whole movie of green screen, though. You kind of forget the plot a little - like being in a Broadway play and doing it over and over and forgetting your line halfway through.
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You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.
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To posit the existence of a Creator requires only reason. To posit the existence of a good God requires faith.
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A doctor, a judge, or a piece of paper shouldn't have the power to tell someone who he or she is. We should all have the absolute and inalienable right to define ourselves, in our own terms and in our own languages, and to be able to express our identity and perspectives without fear of consequences and retribution.
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It always seems impossible until it's done.
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Dorothy said nothing. Oz had not kept the promise he made her, but he had done his best. So she forgave him. As he said, he was a good man, even if he was a bad Wizard.
