William Wordsworth Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks.
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Tackling malaria in a country like the Central African Republic is a huge uphill battle, and my experiences there have been a healthy dose of reality, fueling my own sense of urgency to do my part in reducing the preventable suffering of the incredible women I met.
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I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.
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New Hampshire understands the need to pursue modern and long-term energy strategies that will help lower costs, protect our natural resources, and create good jobs.
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I don't know what 'normal' means, anyway.
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The biggest thing I've learned from my dad is he's had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,000 at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. That's an amazing feat to have people coming out in one of the most liberal universities and one of the most conservative.
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I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.
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And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts.
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I believe in the sanctity of marriage.
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When I see old photos of me on the beach I don't look too bad... but it's hard trying to breathe in for such a long time when I spot the photographers!
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I am making myself less frequent in the Lady World than I have been. I must keep up my dignity, or rather, I must attend more to politics and less to love.
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I love doing crosswords, it's so important to keep the brain going.
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I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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I know that I've seen a mannerism, or a way I've cried, or something, where I see a flash of my parents.
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Of course it can be frustrating. I went through a time when I thought, 'Why doesn't she retire? Give someone else a turn.' But at the same time, that motivates me. When the field is weak, you become weak. When I do win a national title it would mean a lot more if she's there.
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I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.
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I was never trying to be funny. Being funny feels to me like an alternate form of confessionality - that is, a way of dismantling the distance between writer and reader, a way of saying, "come in a little closer."
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When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.
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When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.
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Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!
