L. Frank Baum Quotes
An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that 'when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre.'
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I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.
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What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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I have a really hard time finding good denim.
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I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.
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When I started out in the industry I was 14 and a beanpole, but over the last few years I've grown. For the most part I feel pretty OK with how I look. I know I'm different from the typical Hollywood ideal of what is beautiful. But quite frankly I don't think that's attainable, and I'm happy to represent something different.
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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
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I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.
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Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
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Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.
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I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love.
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Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson and Thoreau and their dark counters, Melville and Emily Dickinson. Try as I might, I can't get their inspirations, their challenges and sentences and wisdom and questions out of my head.
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When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.
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I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.
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An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that 'when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre.'
