Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
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The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'
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A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.
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Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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Only 10 percent of the people in the U.S. like dry wines. You shouldn't get down on people just because they like a little sugar.
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Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments.
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Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.
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We earned our dollars in a hard way;, nobody gave us a feast or gave it on a plate. We worked hard and we have innovated; we have made things in a better way at a cheaper rate and gave it to the people of India.
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I love to have fun and goof around and be silly, so anybody who can also do that is good for me.
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We'll have to marshal our forces in Washington. It won't be easy. That doesn't mean it can't be done.
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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If you have a dream, it's definitely achievable through hard work, through dedication, sacrifice, everything.
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The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.
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Marketers are out there trying to figure out how to get your money out of your child.
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.
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When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.
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This old world keeps spinnin’ round; It’s a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down.
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I'd quite like to invent something that allows me to in eat the shower - not sure what it would entail. Some sort of funnel that goes from the plate to my mouth to move the food to my mouth and keep it dry, perhaps.
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....the songs are universal enough that in ten years time they should still hold up quite well.
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I have often been called a political opportunist simply because I've had friendships with those from varied spheres of the political scenario. It's risky to even have hi and hello relations now with persons from a particular domain. But I think it has got more to do with that spectrum than it has to do with the people in it.
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In the past, it wasn't any big deal for people with talent to hang out together. Now we have the celebrity age, which has made a lot of things harder to do.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
