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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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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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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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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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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I don't think you can reach the same highs working in a band as you can on your own.
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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
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The question was, in a sense, at Princeton Review, how much value was I adding as a public company CEO. I was adding less than other people might've... I think you want to move on when you've given your best work and then feel that you're not going to add as much value moving forward.
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Woe and death to all who resist my will!
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There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God... These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.
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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.
