S. S. Van Dine Quotes
Giving full rein to one's cynicism as one goes along produces a normal outlet and maintains an emotional equilibrium.
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Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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I was a tomboy.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
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We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
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I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.
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I create from a place of passion. It's like a pregnancy, where you create from a place of passion, and then it grows, and then before you know it, you want to push that baby out.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted, and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child, and be loved by the child. From our children's home in Calcutta alone, we have saved over 3,000 children from abortions. These children have brought such love and joy to their adopting parents, and have grown up so full of love and joy!
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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Unfortunately, no matter how frivolous the lawsuit, you still, of course, have to pay people to defend you on it.
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In all the years I've taught at the FBI Academy, I've only seen crime get easier, faster, and harder to detect.
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The universe itself is God and the universal outpouring of its soul
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Giving full rein to one's cynicism as one goes along produces a normal outlet and maintains an emotional equilibrium.
