Adah Isaacs Menken Quotes
There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.
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I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
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He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
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I don't really get to see a lot of other comedians, because I work with the same people all the time. The guy I really like is Nick DiPaulo. I love Nick DiPaulo, but again, he's a buddy of mine. But I liked him for a long time. I liked him before he was a buddy of mine.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
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O Man, as long as you exist, know, have, and cherish, You have not been delivered, believe me, of your burden.
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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
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59: In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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He loved his country as no other man has loved her; but no man deserved less at her hands.
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I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary.
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If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
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It's the ultimate pinnacle of stand-up to have an hour on HBO, but way more people see Comedy Central, and they've been good to me.
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Girls seem to get me in trouble a lot of times.
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I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy.
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I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.
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If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.
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According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
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For grief is crowned with consolation.
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The rejection of the Constitutional treaty by voters in France was a mistake that should be corrected.
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There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.
