Carolyn Keene (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) Quotes
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In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.
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We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences.
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I've always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers - whether female singers or just like music from this country in general.
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When I got my braces removed, I felt more like a real woman, any traces of my childhood were stripped, just like the cold metal that inhabited my mouth for 2 years.
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Sin is blatant mutiny against God.
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Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
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I probably couldn't have the same experience listening to that song because I'm self-conscious about some of my singing parts.
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Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs,” sighed George, patting the heading of the map. “We owe them so much.” “Noble men, working tirelessly to help a new generation of law-breakers,” said Fred solemnly.
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I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they called jazz music. I still can't stand to listen to it.
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The reason I brought this is if I ran into those (expletives). They sued us ... (so) they should have a bit of honor.
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Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth.
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Imagination is a sort of faint perception.
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Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first what you are good at.
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I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
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A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite
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Woe to the man who offends a small child!
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Winter is our time. They shut up their cities for the cold months. They put their horses in stables and sit around great fires in enormous houses of stone. If you want a bearskin, do you attack in summer when it is strong and fast, or cut its throat as it sleeps?
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Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or test. Whatever it was, we should have caught it. We were too gung ho about the schedule and we locked out all of the problems we saw each day in our work. Every element of the program was in trouble and so were we. The simulators were not working, Mission Control was behind in virtually every area, and the flight and test procedures changed daily.
