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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I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
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He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars.
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You see my tears, in the rain underneath it all, we're just the same.
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Stay fly, you can call me Have a Safe Flight
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Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining, too confining. The insistence on bland impersonality and the widespread indifference to anything like the display of a unique human author in scientific exposition, have transformed the reading of most scientific papers into an act of tedious drudgery.
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Oh, Jeeves,' I said; 'about that check suit.' Yes, sir?' Is it really a frost?' A trifle too bizarre, sir, in my opinion.' But lots of fellows have asked me who my tailor is.' Doubtless in order to avoid him, sir.' He's supposed to be one of the best men in London.' I am saying nothing against his moral character, sir.
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It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better.
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His insistence, George had made reservations for a flight the next day.
