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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I want to live fast and die young.
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Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.
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They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know.
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Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.
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We all pretend, we all hide things, so why not take the concept to an extreme? That is the basic idea for the character of Dexter. Pretend to be human, while quietly and carefully living out the life of a monster on the side.
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
