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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Often the desire to appear competent impedes our ability to become competent, because we more anxious to display our knowledge than to learn what we do not know.
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I believe that before anything else I'm a human being -- just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them.
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Magic touches people in the way great art does. It lets them see the world with new eyes.
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I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.
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Stop calling me communist. Stop calling the rest of us communists. You`ve got to stand up for what you believe should be the American government`s spirit, not what you`re just attacking people`s credibility.
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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.
