Carolyn Keene (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) Quotes
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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Education is so important.
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I've always lived a life where people have said, 'Look at him. Who does he think he is?' And who I think I am is someone living life to the brim.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.
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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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It's important for whoever is governor to be somebody with a breadth of experience in life, in business, and in service.
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If the Numerai fund performs well, that should lead to more assets under management, which should lead to more revenue for Numerai's general partner, which should lead to higher payouts for the data scientists, which implies a higher Numeraire valuation.
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What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.
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I support strong sanctions and other penalties against those who aid violent extremists, brutalize their own people and have time and time again rejected calls to behave as responsible nations.
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Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
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I used to clean the sets and serve tea to the artistes.
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There are signs, I think, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fact that the most moral decision in their lives is choosing what colour their next car will be.
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The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.
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To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.
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We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
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"Not many girls would have used their wits the way you did," the officer observed.
