Booth Tarkington Quotes
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainly have no comprehension of what definitely works. And the only gauge that I can go by is, 'This makes me laugh,' and is joyful... I like to, if possible, do things that people can enjoy and it doesn't take anybody down.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.
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My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
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Every minute I'm on the set, it's play time for me. I feel like I'm on the beach!
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You have to be proud of who you are.
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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I remember when TiVO first came out I was all about TiVo. I came home and that thing was frozen, and I thought 'This is awful. This is the end of the world'. Then I unplugged it, and I plugged it back in, and still frozen. It was paralyzing. I called them. They said, 'Just unplug it longer.' Fixed. But it also taught me I'm an addict.
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If anything gets in the way of me being a good mom or wife, I simply say no.
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It is Mormonism, Mohammedanism and heathenism and not Christianity which have proclaimed polygamy and debased woman from the sacred place of wife to the lower level of concubine. It is not Christianity which has sustained the social evil.
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Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.
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I'm fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people growing up now for whom apartheid is just a distant memory and the idea of military service is an abstract notion.
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An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
