Adela Rogers St. Johns Quotes
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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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I'm a fast writer.
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There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I'm honored to be one of the guys that is seen as a leader of this great team - a team that has stood the test of time. AKA is one of the only teams that has been around since the beginning of the MMA explosion, and it's a huge honor for me to be named captain.
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
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Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
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The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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To see for themselves what the United States has been willing to undertake in the name of freedom. We should all visit Normandy. We should pay homage to those brave Americans who stormed ashore at Omaha Beach and gave their lives for the freedom of others.
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If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.' And that's as far as it goes. Because I will simultaneously read a review where somebody says, 'Oh my God, I had so much fun reading this book and I learned so much.'
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I don't think I ever really got interested in theater.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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I would like to encourage hip hop artists to invite those of us who are in the queer spaces in, so we can have those conversations. I love hip hop. If you bring me in the studio, I know how to act. And we can talk about what's not cool because, clearly, there's still homophobia that penetrates in all these areas.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.
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Pathos, piety, courage, - they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.
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I did make a solo album in my house when I was there. And because I was just afraid of flying, I wouldn't promote it, and I wouldn't tour. Actually, it wasn't a very good album anyway - it got buried underneath the pits of Hell, I suppose.
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I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect.
