Edith Caroline Rivett (E. C. R. Lorac) Quotes
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.
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As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating force. That it has become what it has become is shocking to me. I just wanted to be able to take care of my kids.
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The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
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Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.
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Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
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Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
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I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.
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There's nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.
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When President Ronald Reagan negotiated some significant arms reduction deals with the then-Soviet Union, he was considered a real hero, someone who was advocating for peace.
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Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
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We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.
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I surf - that's the one thing I make time to do. I definitely surf a lot, but when you're working 15 hour days... all I want to do is get home to my baby.
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A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
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When you adopt a dog, you have a lot of very good days and one very bad day.
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I am disturbed by how states abuse laws on Internet access. I am concerned that surveillance programmes are becoming too aggressive. I understand that national security and criminal activity may justify some exceptional and narrowly-tailored use of surveillance. But that is all the more reason to safeguard human rights and fundamental freedoms.
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Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God. He gave them moral activity. But the Age, the World, Humanity, must give them the means to exercise this moral activity, must give them intellectual cultivation, spheres of action.
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Ay me, how many perils doe enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall!
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In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.
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Music knits people together in some strange way. Same thing with food.
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When I was a teenager, I worked on a show that was about a family.
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I'd always thought, 'When I finish modelling, I'm going to pursue this.' But then it really kind of hit me. I realized, 'Well, no, you can't do it when it's convenient. If I'm going to do it, I've got to do it right now.' (talking about pursuing her career as a singer).
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ideas are dangerous commodities.
