Sinclair Lewis (Harry Sinclair Lewis) Quotes
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I did not work hard in order to achieve more and to remain at the level of the player that I am and that I can be.
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.
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The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
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Death is better than slavery.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.
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Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.
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I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.
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Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.
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I was a complete brat but was an angel with my mother. I used to be perfectly behaved, and my mother used to be like... 'Really, are you badly behaved with other people?' I was like, 'No, not at all.' But the minute she used to leave the room, I was a brat.
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I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times.
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One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're having a hard time.
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Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.
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With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge's plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, 'natural history.'
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Ignorance is kind of bliss.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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Adult characters are all the things they've encountered over time. But kids haven't accumulated all the life experience, all the regrets. They tend to be more in the moment, more willing to play, to be joyful.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
