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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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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Innocent pleasures are got by virtue and well-earned wealth.
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In times of uncertainty - whether it's economic, psychological, emotional, or philosophical - people often say that the only thing we can truly control is our attitudes. If that's true, then I'm going to spend today walking my 14-year-old dog on a free beach and treasuring the fact that she's still alive.
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I've hurt people unnecessarily when it was about my own insecurities. But you have to make those mistakes to become a better person.
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I'm off everything apart from the fags and the coffee. I don't know if it's worked. It works up until you take your first drink.
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In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
