Sarah Louise Delany Quotes
The world is a puzzling place today. All these banks sending us credit cards, with our names on them. Well, we didn't order any credit cards! We don't spend what we don't have. So we just cut them in half and throw them out, just as soon as we open them in the mail. Imagine a bank sending credit cards to two ladies over a hundred years old! What are those folks thinking?
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
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We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
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Art is born of humiliation.
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I have no regrets. I've got my health.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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A lot of people don't even listen to albums start to finish, but I do - for sure.
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I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.
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I've had such an odd career.
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My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money.
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I'm quite a tuxedo junkie, I collect them all year round.
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Were't the last drop in the well,As I gasp'd upon the brink,Ere my fainting spirit fell'T is to thee that I would drink.
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Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds keeps biting robot developers.
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I had a year off, so my wife and I were heading to Italy to study Italian. We found a little house in a village called Atrani. I discovered that Gore Vidal lived right above us in a big house, so I sent him a note.
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I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.
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The world is a puzzling place today. All these banks sending us credit cards, with our names on them. Well, we didn't order any credit cards! We don't spend what we don't have. So we just cut them in half and throw them out, just as soon as we open them in the mail. Imagine a bank sending credit cards to two ladies over a hundred years old! What are those folks thinking?
