L. Frank Baum Quotes
“And I,” declared the SawHorse, filling in an awkward pause, “am only remarkable because I can't help it.”
L. Frank Baum
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
T. B. Joshua
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
Gary Busey
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
Rachelle Lefevre
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Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.
Okky Madasari
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
Harry Anderson
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
Imelda May
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
Uzo Aduba
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
Jack Canfield
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Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
Ian MacKaye
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There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.
J. Michael Straczynski
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
Laura Wade
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I always wanted to be with a woman who has the same mindset and wants to look after me like my mum.
Gareth Gates
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If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.
Maisie Williams
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'Entourage' was a show that existed around wish-fulfillment. People watched it because they wanted to believe they could go on private jets and be hanging out in Hollywood, but as a show, comedically, it was not funny. Not a funny show. It's funny, ironically, because of how terrible it is.
Adam Pally
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I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited.'
Gary Allan
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It's always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can't change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before.
Carli Lloyd
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I love 'Glee.'
Cameron Mackintosh
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There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.
Ian Mckellen
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I'm never happier than when I'm not working. The strip is a job - that's why I take money for it. It's a job I'm passionate about, but it's a job I totally leave in the studio when I walk out of here, unless I'm late and I have to work at home. I never think of the strip unless I'm compelled to.
Garry Trudeau
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David Anspaugh, who was my first director, on 'Rudy,' was all about empowering the actor, making you feel comfortable and appreciated, allowing you to keep your dignity, and treating you like a man. Being treated like a grown-up makes you proud to be involved in a film.
Jon Favreau
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The Chinese are much too sensible to like turkey - come to think of it, I don't think I've ever encountered turkey anywhere in East Asia, either in a market or on a menu.
John Lanchester
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We exchange information with police so they can monitor those areas and help keep the kids safe as they come and go.
John Whiting
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“And I,” declared the SawHorse, filling in an awkward pause, “am only remarkable because I can't help it.”
L. Frank Baum
