Mae West Quotes
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I've always wanted to play a Marvel baddie. I'm not sure I fit the mold, though. Like a powerful, extraordinary woman. Somebody with superpowers would be really fun, but I'm not sure how many middle-aged women they have in Marvel.
Olivia Colman
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Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
Edmund Waller
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Acting was something I had to do.
Nancy Marchand
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We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.
Oscar Peterson
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I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three years before Martin Luther King was killed, and I think that history of civil action was something that I had in my blood.
Ira Sachs
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I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me.
Laura Hillenbrand
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I've always had bad posture, and Pilates makes me feel taller and reminds me to keep my shoulders back. And hiking isn't just about doing cardio, it's also when I can get my 'me time' to be alone with my thoughts. After Pilates I should do some cardio, and after hiking, I need to do some resistance training.
Mandy Moore
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I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.
W. P. Kinsella
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The Sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
Walter Scott
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Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.
Jane Smiley
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Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.
Jane Smiley
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You have a person there in Senator McCain that has an integrity in him and will stand up for the political process.
Joe Kennedy III
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Together we are building a new Mexico.
Enrique Pena Nieto
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I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.
Paul Thomas Anderson
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Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
Martha Graham
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How can people in other countries who are trying to grasp our plan of democracy avoid stumbling over our logic when we deny the first steps in democracy to our women?
Jeannette Rankin
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I would never send my kids to a single-sex school.
Alexandra Wentworth
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I feel like not only are 'Parenthood' fans passionate, but that passion has grown over the run of the show and people got more invested as the show has gone on. That really does help keep shows on the air.
Jason Katims
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Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.
John Podhoretz
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Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
H. L. Mencken
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.
Seneca the Younger
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In a universe that's an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.
Wayne Dyer
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I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.
Michael Tippett
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Mae West