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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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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.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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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.'
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Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?
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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.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.
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We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.
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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.
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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.
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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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.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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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.
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'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.
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Growing up in the middle of nowhere, there was a lot of twangy music around, but it didn't really connect with me then.
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Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.
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Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.
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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.
