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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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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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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Pushing people forward simply because of their colour, irrespective of merit, would be most unfortunate and would of course lead to disaster. It would mean that Rhodesia would then develop into a kind of banana republic where the country would in no time be bankrupt.
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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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Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile, And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face for all occasions
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With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you. I most devoutly wish that your later days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable. I cannot... I cannot come to each of you but shall feel obliged if each of you will come and take me by the hand.
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Zane brought her hand to his chest, over his heart and she felt the strong rapid beat through his shirt. “Feel that?” His throat worked as he swallowed. “It would break if I fell for you and anything happened that would take you away from me.” --Zane to Willow in 'The Edge of Sin' in the Real Men Last all Night anthology
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.
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There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.
