Edna Ferber Quotes
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street.
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I've directed independent film.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I love anything to do with history.
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I like things simple.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
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Hollywood isn't ready for an Indian leading man.
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Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.
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I believe I drank too much wine last night at Hurstbourne; I know not how else to account for the shaking of my hand today. You will kindly make allowance therefore for any indistinctness of writing, by attributing it to this venial error.
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Support for peaceful reform by the people themselves is the right way to promote democracy, not the use of force.
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I had a very hard father. I had two sisters. He was soft on them and hard on me.
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I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.
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God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.
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Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
