L. Frank Baum Quotes
The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization
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I always have coffee and porridge for breakfast.
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I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.
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Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.
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Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.
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My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.
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I've seen a big shift, especially in my classroom, with women standing up and demanding respect. That's in every woman, whether 16, 26, 56.
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I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.
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In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest.
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We all do stupid things.
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I can't even tell you the anxiety I get from being around those cameras!
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Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.
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I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.
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Because God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
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I had almost no education. I hardly went to school. I’d be away for weeks doing films, then I’d come back and have no idea what they were talking about. Of course the other kids loved it: ‘You may be a well-known star but you don’t know how to do algebra.’ It was a nightmare.
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Only in a country free from the funnelling of primogeniture and the levelling of égalité could the fifth generation of a family still be receiving parcels of wealth from a fortune that had essentially been made in the 1830s.
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I know I need to exercise. For some people, exercise is like breathing; for others, like me, it takes effort. Exercising is what I need for my metabolism and for a better sense of well-being.
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By cultivating rich social networks, by cultivating weak ties, not just close ties but the weak ties, by becoming connectors and by connecting others so that they connect us, we create a world in which these self-amplifying feedback loops feed on top of each other.
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I have always thought we should think less about the British film industry as an entity, and more about getting British talent working.
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We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.
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It's a shame that I haven't done an exhibition in India till now. But I am working on one in Delhi for January 2005. If things go well, there will be another in Mumbai too.
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When you come from a family of actors, people in show business, they really know to celebrate good news and to celebrate it hard because it's not every day that you get it.
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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
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'Green' cannot be allowed to become an excuse for stealth taxes. And nor should 'green taxes' be about punishment. Instead, they should represent a switch of emphasis. So if domestic flights are taxed, it should be on the absolute condition that the money is ploughed into improving the alternatives, such as trains.
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The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization
