Ethel Waters Quotes
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I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.
Ilya Yashin
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It's very scary to me that people actually think we should just follow our leaders. If we can't learn from our history, we're nowhere.
Natalie Maines
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I loved 'Dirty Sexy Money.' That didn't have a long enough shelf life. I would've liked to explore that character and play with that cast longer. That was a lot of fun to shoot.
Zoe McLellan
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
A. J. P. Taylor
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Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree.
Otto Schily
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Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
Orison Swett Marden
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Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.
Carl Honore
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Eating by myself in my own apartment, single and alone again for the first time in many years, I should have felt, but did not feel, sad. Because I had taken the trouble to make myself a real dinner, I felt nurtured and cared for, if only by myself. Eating alone was freeing, too; I didn't have to make conversation.
Kate Christensen
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In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.
Langston Hughes
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I like doing my makeup myself! It's a hobby of mine. I like to play around. I've learned all the best tricks from the pros!
Natasha Poly
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Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes has always been more the fear of them, or the possibility.
Karen Thompson Walker
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I am convinced that the world-wide protests during the Rivonia trial saved Mandela and his fellow-accused from a death sentence. But in South Africa, a life sentence means imprisonment until death - or until the defeat of the government which holds these men prisoner.
Oliver Tambo
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It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.
Dan O'Brien
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Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked 'What's the big idea?' knows, most big ideas are bad ones.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I am very much obliged to my dear little George for his message - for his love at least; his duty, I suppose, was only in consequence of some hint of my favourable intentions towards him from his father or mother. I am sincerely rejoiced, however, that I ever was born, since it has been the means of procuring him a dish of tea.
Jane Austen
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Magic is something that happens that appears to be impossible. What I call 'illusion magic' uses laws of science and nature that are already known. Real magic uses laws that haven't yet been discovered.
Doug Henning
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I thought I sounded a little like Eartha Kitt for a long time, and I didn't like it.
Johnny Mathis
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When your kids are their hungriest, put out raw vegetables and dip - simple. It takes two seconds.
Andie MacDowell
