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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I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
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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 would say the difference between 'old Mark' and post-stroke Mark ... is that pre-stroke Mark was a major micromanager. I just don't have the time or inclination to micromanage as much as I used to.
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For me, Modern Warfare 3 's plot makes its signature turn around the bend when Russia invades Europe. As in, all of it. Simultaneously. Now, I've never invaded Europe, except for that one time, but I would think that's a project you might want to stagger out a bit if you haven't forged an alliance with any galactic empires lately.
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The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole.
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I'm a bad loser, but I'm not a good winner either - I like to rub it in people's faces!
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If we rationalize our problems when He points them out, we will spend less and less time meditating because we won't want to face God in that area of our lives.
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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.
