Eudora Welty Quotes
I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken-and to know a truth.
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
Ed Helms
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
Gary Neville
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Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.
Walter Lang
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
Gabby Douglas
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Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?
Salma Hayek
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
Naomi Wolf
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
Zaha Hadid
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My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.
Yoko Ono
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We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.
Manuel Moroun
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I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.
Larry Brown
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
Queen Victoria
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Fannie Hurst
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
Bear Bryant
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
Vikram Patel
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
Gabby Douglas
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
Xi Jinping
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'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.
Adam Levine Maroon 5
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I love brunch. Brunch is my favorite meal.
J. J. Watt
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The Dormouse looked out, and he said with a sigh: "I suppose all these people know better than I. It was silly, perhaps, but I did like the view Of geraniums (red) and delphiniums (blue).
A. A. Milne
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I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.
Nan Goldin
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Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.
Carl Honore
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It's nice to be recognized, but it's not great to have it too conspicuously recognized, if you see what I mean. Gold records on the wall, or titles after your name, it's just not something... I don't feel that great about it.
Ian Anderson
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I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken-and to know a truth.
Eudora Welty