Carolyn Keene (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) Quotes
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
K. D. Lang -
Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
Ramana Maharshi -
I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.
Pat Quinn -
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
Washington Allston -
The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
Irvine Welsh -
When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.
Jackie Chan
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I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.
Yvonne Strahovski -
With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.
Sally Kirkland -
My features are completely ethnic.
Naomi Campbell -
The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas.
Quentin Bryce -
God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
D. H. Lawrence -
I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.
Irvine Welsh
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I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.
Yogi Berra -
America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate.
Anand Giridharadas -
I like 'Homeland' a lot.
James Wolk -
If there are people who treat me wrong, I either talk to them about it, or I don't talk to them anymore. It's been the most thoughtful and considerate thing I could do for myself and other people. I am going to try to do that forever.
Lucy Dacus -
Some people think Hollywood is shallow. I find that it's home.
Chelsea Handler -
Most achievers I know are people who have made a strong and deep dedication to pursuing a particular goal. That dedication took a tremendous amount of effort.
Donald Johanson
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When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.
Ian Mckellen -
If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
Haile Selassie -
When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
Some interviewees you make friends with and some you don't.
Ruby Wax -
George liked computers and was always sharing interesting facts with her friends.
Carolyn Keene