Amelia Barr Quotes
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.
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The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
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Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.
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I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
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What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.
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I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.
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I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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Everyone has a crazy old lady in their family like 'Mama.' No one ever comes up to me and says 'Mama' is just like them, so no one is ever offended by her. Even young people like to laugh at her. I think she helps kids appreciate their own grandmothers more.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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That's the great thing with the WWE. They want you to be like John Cena, they want you to be like The Rock, and they definitely give you that platform.
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Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
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It was hard for me to hear anyone saying they didn't like 'Billy Madison.'
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In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.
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I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.
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My comedy isn't about being attractive - it's about how the bar of dumb seems so low right now, and I desperately want to raise the bar of dumb just a tiny bit.
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I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
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It's how you make decisions that matters, and that ought to be the question that people ask of any candidate for any executive office, whether it's mayor, governor or president. How do you make decisions? Who do you want in the room helping you make those decisions?
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In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was.
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But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.
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When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.
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Old age is the verdict of life.
