George Ade Quotes
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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Stars arrive on their own timetable.
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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There's this really good line in 'Women in Love' where Ursula says, 'I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.' And actually I think that's very common, it's what a lot of people feel - that you have an obligation to life to be happy if you can.
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This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.
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I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.
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How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!
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There's no road map. There's no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open - or if it ever will.
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My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-five years ago. Whatever sadness or burden I've been living with since then, my brother's also been living with, but he's lived with the added burden of having the exact same name as our mother's murderer.
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The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.
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The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!
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Good short-story collections, like good record albums, are almost always hit-and-miss affairs - successful if they include three or four great tracks, wildly successful if they have five. And that's as it should be.
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I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.
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Perfectionists are their own devils.
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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
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Without numerous schools offering hands-on opportunities, no commander will be cultivated.
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Indifference breeds animosity.
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about his daughters and nieces having developed a natural curiosity about boys
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You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
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I'm not done yet making people miserable. If they're going to make me miserable, then I'm going to make them miserable.
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God would have us move to the highest level of our nature, and that means that we need to understand that our capacity to deal with the spirit-the darkness of the spirit with the light of the spirit as our greatest power.
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Anybody can win - unless there happens to be a second entry.
