Nella Larsen Quotes
The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well.Nella Larsen
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I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
Ian Frazier -
I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
Sally Phillips -
The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.
Taya Kyle -
I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.
Ian Millar -
You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are.
C. Everett Koop -
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
Mao Zedong
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Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted.
Orison Swett Marden -
I've got tons more stuff to do.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
I want to be an arena act. There's so many steps to take to get there, and it's so easy to get lost and cocky. I just take small steps each day.
Verite -
I really love to play 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven. I can still read music, but I need to practise more. The way your fingers move - it's something that comes from memory. I love music.
Irina Shayk -
You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
Dale Carnegie
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Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such a great radio talent. People on his show are actually speaking to each other. You might not like what they're saying, but they're real conversations.
Ira Glass -
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving -
You don't know who wants you for you, who wants you for the money, who wants you for the fame. You have no idea. And how would you know? There's no way.
J. J. Watt -
I am very patriotic and grew up in a house with football fans.
Rachel Stevens -
The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all.
Gary Cooper -
Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.
Jessica Savitch
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Rebuilding our communities where the police and citizens all see themselves as being on the same side will require contributions from all of us.
Hillary Clinton -
I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.
Danielle Trussoni -
I know what my limitations are as an actor, but my strength is putting myself into a well-written part. When I get in trouble is when I have to fix it, or when I have to carry it on personality.
George Clooney -
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?
William Hazlitt -
In the Soviet Union you weren't allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.
Kalle Lasn -
The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well.
Nella Larsen