Mabel Osgood Wright Quotes
Why is it that so many people think that charity consists in giving away merely what they cannot use instead of the article the recipient needs?
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I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.
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Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
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You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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I can get really nervous before a race. People will think this is mad, but sometimes I have got to the start line and thought, 'What if I can't do this?' But the minute I sit on the bike, I am like a different person.
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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I keep my horses out in the open, but when I was working the ranches, I had to clean the stalls. It was a horrible job.
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By definition, startups are not constrained by the limits of established company culture. And so they push boundaries and develop new technologies and ways of doing things.
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I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.
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The clearer the teacher makes it, the worse it is for you. You must work things out for yourself and make the ideas your own.
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A small man always has one weapon he can use against a great big man: he can 'talk' about him.
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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
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A fox and a wolf are both canine, both belong to the dog family. Now you take your choice. You going to choose a Northern dog or a Southern dog? Because either dog you choose, I guarantee you’ll still be in the dog house. This is why I say it’s the ballot or the bullet. It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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Why is it that so many people think that charity consists in giving away merely what they cannot use instead of the article the recipient needs?
