Jayne Mansfield Quotes
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
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We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at anyone. I do. But you've got to forgive and move on.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.
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The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'
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What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.
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When I get married,' said Fred, tugging at the collar of his own robes. 'I won't be bothering with any of this nonsense. You can all wear what you like and I'll put a full body-bind curse on mum until it's over.
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They tell us it will be about 'emotions' and 'friendship,' that it will be a night of joy. Who are they kidding?
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We frequently fall into error and folly, Dr. Johnson tells us, 'not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered.' To compress, therefore, the great and obvious rules of life into brief sentences which are not easily forgotten is, as he said, to confer a real benefit upon us.
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I used to write travel essays, and I was struck by how the fact of writing about a place would change my relationship with it. I would make completely different choices, do things I wouldn't have normally, because I had to fill this narrative shape.
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The real stars are not good actors or actresses. They're personalities.
