Thomas Bulfinch Quotes
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In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.
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There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.
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There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy.
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Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.
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I'm an old spirit, and my voice tends to be kind of heavy and loud. I've been referenced as 'a young Aretha.'
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As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.
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I didn't want to be treated like a 'star.' I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
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The environment around you shapes who you are. How you handle an emergency or how you react when someone is rude to you, that's you.
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When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.
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A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.
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I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
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When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
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There are so few stories being produced that are human. I suffer with the loss of that. I feel kind of out of place, even though I've continued to work.
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The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
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In England, I met a couple who run a children's home. They were very kind and showed me many nice spots in England.
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Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.
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According to a gringo who must be a true spendthrift, Cuba is always the best place to eat and to drink.
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There are a lot of things that we could do to minimize what we're doing, but we're not getting back those frogs that I saw that no longer exist.
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The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse.
