Peter De Vries Quotes
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I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
Barbara Park -
My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
Barbra Streisand -
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
Calvin Coolidge -
Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
Magdalena Neuner -
Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.
Tahl Raz -
Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.
Orlando Bloom
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I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!
Vanessa Hudgens -
Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
Samantha Power -
It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.
Florence Ellinwood Allen -
I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
Calvin Johnson -
I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
Foxy Brown -
One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
Francesco Guicciardini
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I know some people are really comfortable with talking about their feelings and hopes and fears in public, but I'm not, and I don't think it's that extraordinary.
Natasha Little -
Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.
Garry Trudeau -
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
A. R. Ammons -
I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
Parker Stevenson -
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Randall Terry -
Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
Yuna
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When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that explained how to be, how to laugh, what to wear, how to stand by yourself in the hallway. Everyone looked so natural - like they all practiced and knew exactly what to do - even the way they pushed their hair out of their face.
Ze Frank -
Out-of-balance praying leads to no praying at all!
Bill Hybels -
An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.
Adam Michnik -
You get those hunger pains. 'I am so hungry. We don't have any food. What are we going to eat?' Your stomach hurts. Then you get so upset and mad, like, no food. You start having tantrums and don't want to do anything. You get mad at everybody because you don't have any food. That's what happens when you don't eat. You are so sluggish.
Ben McLemore -
The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.
Peter De Vries