Amy Dickinson Quotes
Do not make your current partner pay for the crimes and misdemeanors of your previous partners.
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We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.
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A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
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We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
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The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.
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I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
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My eldest sister Beth is a doctor who studied at Harvard and Columbia and played basketball for Harvard. She set the athletic and academic standard for the rest of us to follow.
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It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
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I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.
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I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.
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You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
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People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.
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Infosys is an absolute meritocracy. Even in a meritocracy, other things being equal, you have to give opportunity to the more experienced candidate.
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I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.
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There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
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I grew up in a farm in South Africa and I was scouted there and they sent me to Europe. It's kind of been blessed, since then it happened all so fast.
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Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.
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Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.
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Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.
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Artists aren't role models. If you want to do that, go into politics.
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It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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Sometimes we have to take on jobs that we don't love, and I always encourage any creative person to use those as the fuel to do the things that you do love to do, even if they don't pay.
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We become what we pay attention to.
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Do not make your current partner pay for the crimes and misdemeanors of your previous partners.
