Meg Cabot Quotes
Pretty isn't the only thing that matters - being smart and kind matters more, of course - but all daughters should hear from their moms that they look pretty once in a while.
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There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
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You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
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I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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It happens a lot that a name actor will be signed on to a project in its germ stage.
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Did I recognize that there was anger or frustration in the American population? Of course I did. First of all, we had to fight back from the worst recession since the Great Depression, and I can guarantee you if your housing values have crashed and you've lost most of your pension and you've lost your job, you're going to be pretty angry.
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Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.
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How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
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Pretty isn't the only thing that matters - being smart and kind matters more, of course - but all daughters should hear from their moms that they look pretty once in a while.
