Carolyn Keene (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) Quotes
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I have a lot of friends who are infected with HIV, and you wanna protect them... To increase the awareness of it and to find a cure for it, the human lives we would save would be a really awesome thing. You just have to involve yourself as much as you can.
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I don’t know what a star is. I never think about these things, because the more you think about them, the more your ears get used to them.
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I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .
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School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.
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Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times.
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Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.
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If I was Simon Cowell for a day, I’d buy a bouncy castle, and jump on it. Then…pour ketchup on myself!
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I do think there is some chance we will see increased private sector savings in the next year or two if housing prices were to moderate.
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I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness.
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I've chosen to be a commentator and an analyzer of politics, rather than an actual doer of it. I think it could have gone the other way, but I'm not sorry that it didn't, because this made it easier to be home with my kids and to spend time with them. Writing you can do right in your house. You don't have to go anywhere.
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When taxes are too high, people go hungry.
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My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.
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Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.
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...behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.
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And because technology is moving so rapidly, things become obsolete very, very quickly. In 15 years time, Will Caster is probably going to be in some weird room in Vegas where people are plugging quarters into him. Who has a mini-disc of a laser disc player? It's over!
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The equation of animal and vegetable life is too complicated a problem for human intelligence to solve, and we can never know how wide a circle of disturbance we produce in the harmonies of nature when we throw the smallest pebble into the ocean of organic life.
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I promise to be as careful as a pussycat walking up a slippery roof
