Dodie Smith Quotes
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I would like my kids to study well.
Vijay -
Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.
Eden Hazard -
In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.
Yehuda Berg -
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams -
George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.
Larry Kramer -
In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.
H. R. McMaster
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Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?
Ed Sullivan -
May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this beautiful, strong and hard-working country of Sweden, continue to flourish in the future, for the promotion of culture and the benefit of mankind.
Otto Wallach -
It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
Yogi Berra -
We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination plants is an expensive testament to that.
Malcolm Turnbull -
You rewind. You think of your preparation. You think of everything you did throughout the week, your life, the practices, the intensity. Everything flashes, and you come right back to that point. And it's like, game on.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson -
I was a campaign widow.
Laura Moser
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When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
Tayari Jones -
It's important to see color. We are not the same. We have very different experiences.
Paloma Elsesser -
As we got older, we grew comfortable in roles that met our parents' expectations. Nora was the smart one. Delia, the comedian. I was the pretty, obedient one. And Amy was the adventurous mischief-maker.
Hallie Ephron -
We probably haven't seen the variety and diversity of threats to Americans' safety and well-being and our national security in a long, long time. Some have said it almost makes you yearn for the Cold War days when you knew who the bad guys were and who the good guys were, and there was a wall dividing us.
Dan Coats -
True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.
Garth Brooks -
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the aftermath of a marriage, you feel helpless and hapless.
Kate Christensen -
I was off to Yale to be a lesbian.
Judith Butler -
I feel like I want to write some songs and I don't know how to go about doing it. Usually it's the lyrics that are a problem, and I think I am not really cut out to be a lyricist.
Mike Gordon -
There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
Irving Kirsch -
The Comrade Wolf knows whom to eat, as the saying goes. It knows whom to eat and is not about to listen to anyone, it seems.
Vladimir Putin -
Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.
Dodie Smith