William Dean Howells (The Dean of American Letters) Quotes
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My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!
Olivia Holt
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
Barbra Streisand
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
Natascha McElhone
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
Rachel McAdams
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
Vanna Bonta
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
Hansika Motwani
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So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
Barry McCaffrey
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
Damien Rice
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What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?
Ed Smith
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As a girl who was raised on the idea that we should give back to our community as much as possible, I believe that we have more power than we think when it comes to making change.
Laura Marano
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
Kate Bosworth
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
T-Pain
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
Kara Swisher
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
Jack Nicholson
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Leaks are always bad news.
Valerie Plame
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
Wellington Mara
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If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
Sadie Jones
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
Walter Cronkite
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The U.S. never lost a battle against North Vietnam, but it lost the war.
John McCain
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Who doesn't like to get dressed up and eat good food?
Victoria Arlen
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While silence can in some circumstances bespeak noble self-control, it can also signify suppression, oblivion or cowardice.
Ephraim Mirvis
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I do believe that people of all religions have a right to build edifices or structures or places of religious worship or study where the community allows them to do it under zoning laws and that sort of thing, and that we don't want to turn an act of hate against us by extremists into an act of intolerance for people of religious faith.
Ted Olson
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I'll tell you what war is about, you've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting.
Curtis LeMay
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People naturally despise a dependant.
William Dean Howells