James Thurber Quotes
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
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This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
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Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
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I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.
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President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that's what the American people expect and deserve - not for the short term political advantages, but the long term health of our country. We don't spend time trying to figure out what's in the minds of Republicans, we try to keep our focus on the American people.
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I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.
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I am undeniably afraid of the dark!
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It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.
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I was a little hesitant at taking the job at Atari. I had never programmed for a living and I worried it might get boring (building circuits seemed more fun). But I would probably still be in the video game business.
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At an early age I discovered the beauty in pictures in 'Vogue' magazine and Ebony magazine, and I would read 'The New York Times.' I had to make my own world within my world because I was an only child.
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Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
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What you hear mostly people gripe about adaptations is, 'They took out this scene,' or, 'They had to condense these characters.' I understand why they have to do that. But if you had a favorite character, and now they've been melded together with another one, it's disappointing.
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
