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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We must not allow the Iranian regime to use the nation's vast energy resource as a financial pipeline for its nuclear ambitions.
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I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.
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When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.
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Как легко, доктор, быть философом на бумаге и как это трудно на деле!
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Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
