E. Nesbit Quotes
I think everyone in the world is friends if you can only get them to see you don't want to be un-friends.
Quotes to Explore
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If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.
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Children in the 21st (century) have been transformed from net producers of their own toy and play culture, to net consumers of play culture imposed by adults.
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I like 'Shameless.' The first season I just watched it straight through. I literally didn't get up. I just had to finish it.
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Any kind of problem you have in your life, you come to Bikram. Your life becomes the best in the world.
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When you live on your own for a long time, however, your personality changes because you go so much into yourself you lose the ability to be social, to understand what is and isn't normal behavior. There is an entire world inside yourself, and if you let yourself, you can get so deep inside it you will forget the way to the surface. Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.
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I think everyone in the world is friends if you can only get them to see you don't want to be un-friends.
