Carolyn Keene (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) Quotes
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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
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I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.
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I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
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The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.
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A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
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The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.
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In many respects, we really are trying to not run the Social Office like a business, but we do have a strategy. We do have a mission. We are trying to standardize certain things so that our time is not spent on, you know, picking flowers or linens, that we've got standards.
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I think the day that I become comfortable doing interviews and going on talk shows is the day that I don't know what it is to be a human being anymore.
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Life and consciousness are the two great mysteries. Actually, their substrates are the inanimate. And how do you get from neurons shooting around in the brain to the thought that pops up in your head and mine? There's something deeply mysterious about that. And if you're not struck by the mystery, I think you haven't thought about it.
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Does man think because he has found that thinking pays? Does he bring his children up because he has found it pays?
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I wouldn't know how to design. I couldn't even if I wanted to, for I can't draw, and a pair of scissors in my hands becomes a dangerous weapon.
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What a time for the bulb to got Wait here. I’ll get one from the kitchen.
