Dorothy Gilman Quotes
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I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.
Quentin Blake
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Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.
Candice Swanepoel
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The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural problems in American politics and government are systemic and prevent us from solving our most intractable challenges.
Larry J. Sabato
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The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.
Olivia De Havilland
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I never thought of being disadvantaged.
Natalie du Toit
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After the Pearl Harbor attacks, around 120,000 Japanese Americans were jailed in internment camps. If an attack on U.S. soil were perpetrated by people who were not white and Christian, we can be pretty damn sure that racists would have a field day.
Naomi Klein
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
Zubin Mehta
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The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.
Mahavira
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Through the years, I found we had Native American blood in us. My great-grandmother came from the island of Martinique, and they hooked up with the Native Americans of Louisiana.
Aaron Neville
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I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time.
Zoltan Kodaly
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The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
D. H. Lawrence
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Jack: What do you think of this card I wrote for Don? 'To Don from Jacky, Oh golly, oh shucks. I hope that you like it, It cost forty bucks.
Jack Benny
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God will give him blood to drink!
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, 'I wish you hadn’t made every line funny. It’s so depressing.'
Quentin Crisp
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Being Queen is a profession, a job, a position, an office that one cannot put aside when you come home from work. It is there all the time - and it is there all your life.
Margrethe II of Denmark
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You can play the game and you can act out the part.Though you know it wasn't written for you.But tell me, how can you stand there with your broken heart,Ashamed of playing the fool?One thing can lead to another; it doesn't take any sacrifice.Oh, father and mother,and sister and brother,If it feels nice, don't think twice.
James Taylor
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I was never able to praybut let me inscribe my namein the book of waves.
Edward Hirsch
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'Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.'
Neil Gaiman
