Hugh Lofting Quotes
“I don't believe in a lot of baggage. It's such a nuisance. Life's too short to fuss with it. And it isn't really necessary”
Quotes to Explore
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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Even if you didn't lose your job, if you're one of the two-thirds of Ontarians who don't have a pension, you lost savings. Even if you've earned most of that back now, you are a changed person. You are less secure, less confident. And I understand that.
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.
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I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.
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I believe in God and a higher power. I'm still not the religious type per se because religion tore my family apart. I'm still a little scared and skeptical being one with any faith.
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When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
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I'm a huge fan of the Clintons. I love Hillary; I love Bill.
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I must confess that the original 'Pretty Woman' was terrific and a hit, but I always felt that creatively I didn't do justice to Richard Gere's character. So in the musical, we have some great new moments for Richard's character.
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War is being waged all across the country against the invasive plant and animal species - some 50,000 of them - now spreading across the U.S.
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Human reason is by nature architectonic.
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But who could bear to know which stars were already dead, she thought, blinking up at the night sky; could anybody stand to know that they all were?
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And every day that I spend as Charlotte and Aiden's mother, I think about my own mother, my wonderful, thoughtful, hilarious mother.
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Any game is important to me. At Boston College, when I went out for the spring games, I wanted to win. Maybe it is more important than other preseason games. It's just that everyone is expecting a lot from me in my first week of professional football. I want to confirm my expectations.
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Even if you have something that you can contribute to society, very often society doesn't view you that way. Because when you are The Other, the first response by the mainstream, if you will, is to ostracize.
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His administration apparently means to define itself as a television program instead of a government...I don't know if it can please both its sponsors and its intended audience.
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“I don't believe in a lot of baggage. It's such a nuisance. Life's too short to fuss with it. And it isn't really necessary”
