Booth Tarkington Quotes
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.
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People thought we were a joke because we got noticed so fast.
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I was trying to be someone for the first part of high school. I was kind of this nerdy kid who didn't want to be a nerd anymore. Even talking about it, I'm embarrassed. I'm like, 'Ugh, why did you care what people thought?'
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I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.
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I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.
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The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
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Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.
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Wherever I go, people are so kind and so lovely and so warm and show their best self. So I feel very lucky.
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I think, ultimately, open always wins out. It wins out because you cannot lock data in; you can't lock people in. They will find a way out.
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I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.
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I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.
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Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao was one of the worst boxing matches I've ever seen, but millions of people watched it because of the personalities involved.
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It's just kinda irritating to me that we're awarding people in mixed martial arts for trying to move away and not finish the fight.
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For some reason, I find that in the course of my career I've worked with more women than most men have.
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I thought I was going to be able to use my painting ideas as decoration on pottery, but my painting did not translate into decoration on pottery. I thought it was going to, and in fact I made, while still in school, a plate with one of my paintings on it, and that's exactly what it was, it was a plate with a painting on it. It was not a decorated plate; it was just a painting superimposed over a three-dimensional ceramic form.
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Without a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to common sense
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I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.
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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
