Carolyn Keene (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) Quotes
We could certainly use a detective. And I've got to hand it to you, Nancy - you sure can keep your head.
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Family comes out whenever we know it's gonna be steady on a run that's continuous.
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Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.
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The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.
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Elaine Equi has been publishing her observant, often playful poetry for some 30 years, extending and deepening the range of her intrinsically wry voice.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.
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Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.
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Everybody likes a compliment.
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If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.
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The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
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I guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.
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When I work for someone else, I always make money for them. When I back my own ideas, I am bound to lose.
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It was an honour for me to have been able to work with Mr. Mandela in the process that led to the adoption of the interim constitution and our first democratic elections in April 1994.
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I admire a lot of actors; I think a lot of them have so much talent.
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Gentlemen of the Convention, your present temper may not mark the healthful pulse of our people. When your enthusiasm has passed, when the emotions of this hour have subsided, we shall find below the storm and passion that calm level of public opinion from which the thoughts of a mighty people are to be measured, and by which final action will be determined.
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The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.
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There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
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I am the conductor for life of the Staatskapelle in Berlin, which fills me with tremendous joy because I feel absolutely at one with them. When we play, I have a feeling that together we manage to create one collective lung for the whole orchestra so that everybody in the stage breathes the music in the same way.
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The little ones leaped, and shouted, and laugh'd And all the hills echoed.
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I actually go to the gym much more now than I did when I was on Buffy. I like to stay fit, because that's when I feel really healthy. But I never worked out for any kind of image. People have said to me, 'Do you starve yourself before photo shoots?' And I always say, 'No way.! That's what airbrushing is for. I had french fries last night.'
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When I was a barber, me being extreme was how I got popular: you name it, I was drawing it on someone's head.
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We could certainly use a detective. And I've got to hand it to you, Nancy - you sure can keep your head.
