Frances Farmer Quotes
The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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Rick Santorum has so much potential and so much eagerness to serve our country.
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Japanese people are not known for expressing their feelings through singing and dancing, but I like to sing a lot. I don't just sing to myself in the shower. I sing everywhere.
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This love is silent.
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I don't care about revenues.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
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With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
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I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'
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That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
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I love to talk about sports. I love sports; it's just something that's in my nature.
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Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.
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A rotten apple in the Guardian Angels stigmatizes us all over the world.
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It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua - that even in conditions of peace they don't seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous.
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The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
