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 is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding.
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You know who doesn't get the death penalty? Crazy people. That's a defense in America. My client's crazy. He doesn't know what he did. Fine, then he doesn't know we're gonna kill him. If a guy's that retard, you put him the electric chair and tell him it's a ride.
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People recognize me from everything and as soon as I think I know where they know me from, I'm always wrong.
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Australia is not very exclusive. On the visa application they still ask if you've been convicted of a felony - although they are willing to give you a visa even if you haven't been.
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The challenge of the believer is to take the faith that you got in here and take it to the place out there.
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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.
