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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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 had to create some good work habits and attitude.
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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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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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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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If you're a friend or a relative of George Herbert Walker Bush, Prez 41, or George W. Bush, Prez 43, or any other Bushes, then you know an 18-hole round of golf shouldn't take more than three hours out of your day - there are other important things to do.
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War is being waged all across the country against the invasive plant and animal species - some 50,000 of them - now spreading across the U.S.
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I seriously wished-selfish as it may appear-that the reformation of society had been postponed about half a century, or, at all events, to such a date as should have put my intermeddling with it entirely out of the question.
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Why be afraid to make an honest mistake?
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You've been vilified, used as fodder, you deserve a piece of every record.
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I’ve always said there’s no hope without endeavor. Hope has no meaning unless we are prepared to work to realize our hopes and dreams but in order to that we do need to have friends. We need those who believe in us. Friends are those who believe in us and who want to help us whatever it is that we are trying to achieve.
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My parents came from little, so they made a choice to give a lot: buying turkeys for homeless shelters at Thanksgiving, delivering meals to people in hospices, giving spare change to those asking for it.
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Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the world.
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As woman was the first to be tempted, so did God's message of grace come first to a woman, and each time woman's assent determined the destiny of humanity as a whole.
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'Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old – obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.
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What a time for the bulb to got Wait here. I’ll get one from the kitchen.
