Dorothy Dix Quotes
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
Nathan Fillion -
No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
Aaron Brown -
I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
Imelda Marcos -
I like to have fun, just stay relaxed.
Usain Bolt -
The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.
Larry Brown -
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
Ovid
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Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Tacitus -
I get a lot of backlash for wearing designers that I feel are creators and artists. I get it all the time.
Kat Graham -
I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid. When I was a little girl, I was told, 'When we are gone' - when you're a kid, you never think they'll ever be gone - 'you have to keep the music alive, the Carter Family songs, and add your own songs.'
Carlene Carter -
I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.
Abbi Jacobson -
A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.
Ibrahim Babangida -
After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.
Macaulay Culkin
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
Irving Babbitt -
It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.
Laura Dern -
When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
Youssou N'Dour -
The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.
Manfred von Richthofen -
English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
Malcolm Bradbury -
The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.
Randy Neugebauer
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One of the things that I am concerned about is the degree to which we've seen a lot of commentary lately where there were, there are Republicans or pundits or cable commentators who seemed to have more confidence in Vladimir Putin than fellow Americans because those fellow Americans were Democrats. That cannot be.
Barack Obama -
Essence has been home for so many of us for so many years. I always say that Essence was the first place that I felt I was a pretty black girl.
Nina Shaw -
Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'
Kalpana Chawla -
My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
Gabriel Macht -
But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.
Randy Newman -
I think even lying on my bed I can still do something.
Dorothy Dix