Jen Lancaster Quotes

I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.

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• Military brats have this toughness: they're almost like orphans or foster children; they develop little mechanisms. It sets you up to look at things a little differently.

  

  Padgett Powell
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  • Children
  • Military

• Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
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  • God
  • Mess

• Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.

  

  Abbie Cornish
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  • Remember
  • Night

• Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

  

  Camille Paglia
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  • Mother
  • Man

• People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • People
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  • Waiting

• My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.

  

  Ted Cruz
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  • Family
  • Love

• That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.

  

  Jackson Browne
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  • Important
  • Rules

• Even if you throw your hair up in a quick topknot or ponytail, you can add instant polish by wearing a headband or bejeweled barrette.

  

  Kat Graham
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  • You
  • Hair

• Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
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  • Thinking
  • Reality

• What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.

  

  Harrison Ford
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  • Very
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• Hanson has rapid female fans, which I'm completely proud of, but a lot of fans are a contingent that have grown up with us really - our peers. There's younger fans. More and more guys are Hanson fans, musicians or kind of guys who were into a Beatles record.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
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  • Fans

• We're certainly not in position to expand into the East. We've been very candid and up front that if, in fact, we go through an expansion process, the world will know about it.

  

  Gary Bettman
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  • World
  • Know

• I feel that I've got the opportunity to set a great role model for girls to look up to a strong, active, compassionate, loving, positive woman, and I think it's so important.

  

  Gal Gadot
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• Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.

  

  Carla Bley
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  • Like
  • Sophisticated

• Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
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  • Happy
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• Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!

  

  Dada Vaswani
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  • Work
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• When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
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  • Up
  • Good

• I really believe deep in my soul that we're going to have to step up and face these challenges and be tough and pull together and unify and be creative and be willing to sacrifice.

  

  Zach Wamp
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  • Believe
  • Together

• English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • English
  • Class

• Since September 11, 2001, many in this nation and this Congress have a deeper appreciation for the importance of the sacrifices made by our law enforcement officers.

  

  Jerry Costello
  • Law
  • Appreciation
  • September

• I think even the most beautiful person looks stupid on Skype.

  

  Freida Pinto
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  • Stupid

• I didn't have to win, and winning wasn't important to me. Being world champion wasn't important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
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  • Live

• As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
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  • Water
  • Heaven

• I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.

  

  Jen Lancaster
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