Gabrielle Burton Quotes
A man loves a woman so much, he asks her to marry - to change her name, quit her job, have and raise his babies, be home when he gets there, move where his job is. You can hardly imagine what he might ask if he didn't love her.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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I don't care if I never see Texas again.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
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My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
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I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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I don't want to play everyone's best friend. I don't want to play the role of a girl struggling in the ghetto. It's not that that story isn't important, but I saw patterns, and was like, 'I don't relate to these people.'
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Holiday food is rich and indulgent. Going-home-to-see-family food is richer and even more indulgent.
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Is Europe a home for an alliance of civilizations or is it a Christian club? If the former is true, then Turkey should be part of it.
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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
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Self-appearing subjects and objects are the power of the baseless ultimate truth.
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The pension system ties you to companies much longer in Japan.
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A man loves a woman so much, he asks her to marry - to change her name, quit her job, have and raise his babies, be home when he gets there, move where his job is. You can hardly imagine what he might ask if he didn't love her.
