Edmund Clerihew Bentley Quotes
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Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.
Kara Swisher
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There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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Guys who are charismatic and fun-loving and sweet and generous are the ones I want to date.
Victoria Justice
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I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.
Jack Kemp
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In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic.
Karl Philipp Moritz
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I've gotten over that by now. But I remember the first time reading the book, I was like, 'Wait, Jacob's been trying to get Bella this entire time, and he strikes out, so he goes for her child?' I was so confused. It took me a second.
Taylor Lautner
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Everybody wants attention, more or less. I just want a lot.
Zara Larsson
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One of the things about animal rights, which is not the only thing that I care about in this world, is that your money can bring success. I see results.
Sam Simon
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The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.
Nancy Kress
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'The idea of the feudal system is that the people on the top take care of the needs of those on the bottom, but I have seldom seen it work that way,' Wicked said. 'Yeah,' I said, 'it's like trickle-down economics; it only works if the people at the top are really good, decent people. The system is only as good as the people in power.'
Laurell K. Hamilton
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Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.
Marcus Aurelius
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The better the singer's voice is, the harder it is to believe what they're saying. So I turn my weaknesses into an advantage.
David Byrne
Talking Heads
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I think about Laura Bush every once in awhile. She is a great supporter of the arts. I did a show at the Eisenhower Theater, and she would make a point of coming backstage. The relationship between Laura and George Bush was always that way where you felt like he was at his best behavior when he was in her company.
Bill Pullman
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There's often more than one correct thing.There's often more than one right thing.There's often more than one obvious thing.
Larry Wall
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We have food all around us all the time, and if we haven't eaten for three hours, we think we're starving. You're not starving - human beings can go for 30 days without food.
Jocko Willink
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It's really indescribable. All the hard work you put in and all the sacrifices.
Becky Sauerbrunn
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One may decide that the nipple most nearly resembles a newly ripened raspberry (never, be it noted, the plonk of water on a pond at the commencement of a drizzle, a simple bladder nozzle built on the suction principal gum bubble, mole, or birth ward, bumpy metal button, or the painful red eruption of a swelling), but does one care to see his breakfast fruit as a sweetened milky bowl of snipped nips? no.
William H. Gass
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Sir James Jeans
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
