Carolyn Keene (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) Quotes
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I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.
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Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!
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Doing scripted acting is a challenge to me. I can't remember things too good, so remembering lines is a challenge to your boy.
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My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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Solemnity in politicians is not only tiresome but may even mask those twin sins - self-righteousness and intolerance - for the opinions of others. If I couldn't laugh, I couldn't live, especially in politics.
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I am a very open person, and I'm always nervous of being misconstrued. Sitting in the middle of a restaurant makes me nervous. I feel like I'm being judged. And it's funny that I should feel that way.
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I never set out to be a role model, but I guess parents like it because I am dedicated to school.
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Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
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I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I'm definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they're like when you take their preferred substance away.
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If you're going to have to swallow a frog, you don't want to have to look at that sucker too long!
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Let the psychotics take over. They alone understood what was happening.
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Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names.
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Our biggest fear is that 'Food, Inc.' will move heavy-handed food-safety regulations forward.
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I saw Tina Turner do 'Proud Mary' on TV, and it was so electrifying and such a unique experience. I remember crying out of excitement, and I knew that I wanted to be a performer and make people feel excited and moved, and that's why I gravitated towards it.
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Sugar is more present in America or England than it is in France. I think there is an addiction to sweetness.
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If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn.
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I don't want to judge America. I love America. God bless America. There are so many wonderful things about America. The fork! But we are a little behind on the bidet situation. I'm willing to say that. Hopefully we'll get our act together.
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We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.
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Our cellphones can do everything, but they're bad at letting us talk to each other.
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Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.
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I'm Fred Mathews
