James Branch Cabell Quotes
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
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We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.
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Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
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I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
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As a former teacher and someone who has devoted her entire career to children and public schools, I understand the pain and frustration of parents who feel their children are not receiving the education they deserve.
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Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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I can't even say what my greatest fear is because I, I can't even imagine. Being without my family... I can't even say it because it makes me cry.
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I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
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I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.
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There is a quality of selfishness that is associated with an individual when they are in the depths of addiction.
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After independence most governments were formed by Cong. And the few times BJP came to power, it was a coalition. But this is the first time that we have won purely on our own-with a national agenda based on governance.
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I love going to cities and getting lost. I love doing that rather than following a guidebook.
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I'm interested in making films that ask questions and don't particularly provide answers.
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The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules.
