William Jennings Bryan Quotes
The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
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I usually say I left puberty at 58.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.
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You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
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I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.
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I got into rhythmic gymnastics when I was four years old.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.
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One needs to live every day according to God's commandments. And then any kind of difficulty or unpleasantness will be manageable.
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
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I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.
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My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
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When I first started doing press, one of the things people started pushing was this idea that I'd somehow escaped something. And I was really offended, because I hadn't escaped anything.
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There's reality shows and things like that and I think 'Parenthood''s kind of a throwback to what we used to have back in the '70s, '80s and '90s. People want to see this again, and I feel like it's just a solid, good show.
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It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing cells under a microscope. It will not work if you are writing fiction. For the fiction writer, to believe nothing is to see nothing.
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In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own.
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Very often, people are obsessed with what others think of them. It's like if a flower wants to be a cactus or a palm but it's not. A flower is a flower, and that's enough. That's all you have to do is be a flower.
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The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
