Jef I. Richards Quotes
Congress seems to believe that 'Children are our future' is a phrase coined by tobacco advertisers.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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We shred every day.
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Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.
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You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
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It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
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Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
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One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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You have to be your biggest believer.
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It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques.
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Writing is manual labor of the mind - like laying pipe.
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Congress seems to believe that 'Children are our future' is a phrase coined by tobacco advertisers.
