B. M. Bower (Bertha Muzzy Sinclair) Quotes
A fellow ought to make sure his canoe is going to stay right side up before he asks a girl to step into it.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.
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We have the ability to be able, if we have the right resources around us, to really do chop and change and have fun in our time and not just be stuck in one world or the other.
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I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
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I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.
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I've always watched the political shows.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.
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History's lesson, of course, is that attempts to suppress free expression have merely confirmed the caricaturists' original critique of heavy-handed and objectionable actions of overreaching governments.
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The selfie phenomenon is enormous, and it's hilarious. Especially as Australians, because we kind of hate people that love themselves, but that's all flipping on its head now, and we're happy to love ourselves.
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My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
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I still have a lot to do, a lot to improve.
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As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.
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America is about choices, including those to live certain lifestyles.
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I'm a Reuben kinda girl, but I'll take a BLT with avocado in a red hot minute if it comes on ciabatta.
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I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't warm up, and I don't know how other singers do it.
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I lived the street life for a minute; I lost a lot of friends.
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People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed.
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A fellow ought to make sure his canoe is going to stay right side up before he asks a girl to step into it.
