Frances Burney Quotes
Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarrassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom, till too late, discover how I ought to act.
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Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.
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There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
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I don't know if Wimbledon's seen anything like it. I don't know if they will again. But it was just - it was electric. The Aussie crowd, I'm really proud of them, the way they conducted themselves. You know they're great losers, as well.
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Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.
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Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.
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I think there will be an increasing convergence between content and commerce, that it will be about following consumers instead of making consumers come to you, and I am especially excited about the various platforms that will allow more and more access to customers.
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I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.
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Anything's possible in politics.
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They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. It's the same way with women... or at least the ones I want to be with.
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If you've got cool nails, you wake up and you're like, 'Oh, I'm happy now.'
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse.
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I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.
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I'm a much more chill person now that I know who I am and know my own voice, so I don't really get nervous with live TV at all.
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Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.
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Commissions add up, taxes are a big drag, margin ain't cheap. A good accountant costs money as well. The math on this one is obvious, yet investors often fail to recognize it: Keep your costs low and your turnover lower, and you will win in the end.
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I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
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Things happen. And good things happen, and bad things happen. And I'm a person - I'm a believer that everything happens for a reason.
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We are the hollow menWe are the stuffed menLeaning togetherHeadpiece filled with straw.
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That's the problem today: Who is the creator?
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box -- the part one strikes on, I mean.
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WHEN THE BODY is rendered useless, the mind still runs like a bloodhound along well-worn trails of neurons, tracking the echoing questions: the confused family of whys, whats, and whens and their impossibly distant kin how. The search is exhaustive; the answers, elusive.
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I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.
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Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarrassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom, till too late, discover how I ought to act.
