L. Frank Baum Quotes
I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
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If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.
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I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
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Conceptual art, I don't even know what that is.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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I do think from time to time that conceptual questions arise: What do we mean by equilibrium? What do we mean by this concept and that concept?
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Learning difficulties are a cover for rich parents with dumb kids...That's why 'Pinch' Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, is alleged to have dyslexia - because he's retarded.
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I know when I get down and discouraged, it's hard for me to be able to just see anything except for right where I am.
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Remember that you are but an actor, acting whatever part the Master has ordained. It may be short or it may be long. If he wishes you to represent a poor man, do so heartily; if a cripple, or a magistrate, or a private man, in each case act your part with honor.
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Putting yourself out there is hard, but it's so worth it. I don't think anyone who has ever spoken out, or stood up or had a brave moment, has regretted it. It's empowering and confidence-building and inspiring. Not only to other people, but to yourself.
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The world is full of people who want to play it safe, people who have tremendous potential but never use it. Somewhere deep inside them, they know that they could do more in life, be more, and have more -- if only they were willing to take a few risks.
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I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.
