Judith Flanders Quotes
The last refuge of the intelligentsia: when life gets too difficult, go find something to read.
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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Excellence always sells.
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It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
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We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.
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All of us are going to have to find ways to do things more efficiently, find ways to get our costs more in line, and do it in a time of higher regulatory and environmental standards.
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Judaism is a whole line of values that have existed for thousands of years, but the democratic idea is a new idea, and significant parts of it stand in contradiction to Judaism.
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There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.
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I'm looking for things where, like with 'Ten,' I don't look like me, and I'm playing something a bit different. I'm just trying to flex a different muscle and see if it works. I've saved the world and killed monsters and done all that. Now I want to try something a bit different and a bit more challenging.
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Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.
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I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it.
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A word is worth a thousand images.
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I pumped on that one and he made a great catch, ... That got things going for us. That was a huge play.
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I wouldn't kill an abortionist myself, but I wouldn't want to impose my moral values on others. No one is for shooting abortionists. But how will criminalizing men making difficult, often tragic, decisions be an effective means of achieving the goal of reducing the shootings of abortionists?
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It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.
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I really enjoy working on adaptations.
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The last refuge of the intelligentsia: when life gets too difficult, go find something to read.
