Don Marquis Quotes
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
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People always want to doubt you.
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I feel the happiest when I'm at the golf course. And I feel calm when I'm on the golf course. I think I'm just a much better person when I'm on the golf course.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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We don't wake up happy and looking absolutely perfect and feeling amazing every day, you know? We're only human. So I think, with me, I'm not really scared to let people see that - because it's real.
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The real Malala is gone somewhere, and I can't find her.
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When I'm a bit sad, I often go for a drive in the country, quite fast with my music up.
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I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.
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I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.
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I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.
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I am positive that I would see the end of child labour around the world in my lifetime, as the poorest of the poor have realised that education is a tool that can empower them.
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There's no one who has been living for centuries.
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I do have a lot of female friends who are stand-ups and also women who are actresses and also happen to have an act.
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I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.
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There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.
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My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.
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'H–hup!' said Roo accidentally. 'Roo, dear!' said Kanga reproachfully. 'Was it me?' asked Roo, a little surprised.
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The stoic husband was the glorious thing.The man had courage, was a sage, 'tis true,And lov'd his country.
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Mistakes are a part of life; you can't avoid them. All you can hope is that they won't be too expensive and that you don't make the same mistake twice.
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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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How far should a person go in the name of true love?
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After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded.
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In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
