Carolyn Keene (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) Quotes
Town of River Heights, frequently discussed puzzling aspects of cases with his blond, blue-eyed daughter.
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Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
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I miss my dad, yes. But I try to honor his memory, as well as all the victims of Hurricane Katrina, through the love I have for all humanity, a love I try to express through my music.
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I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.
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The Left doesn't understand the importance of God in the Israeli public discourse, and Yesh Atid does.
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Real talent shines through regardless of how many others there are around you.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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Everybody wants attention, more or less. I just want a lot.
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I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy.
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Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.
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I had never danced all my life until I shot for my first song in 'Chirutha.'
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I could not find the way to God;There were too many flaming sunsFor signposts, and the fearful roadLed over wastes where millionsOf tangled comets hissed and burned-I was bewildered and I turned.
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We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility.
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Everybody has busy lives, but you can tell people, 'Go outside and look at the night sky. We've been able to demonstrate that every star you see probably has a planet around it.'
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Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?
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The conversation of how you do a play is my favorite conversation in the whole wide world: what a play is, why it's different than anything else, the math of the way that human behavior has to be calibrated theatrically versus anything else.
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I think we should all be more concerned about the environment and the effects of global warming. It will be pointless to talk about all the issues that divide us when it's 300 degrees outside.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in the 1960s, put me onto Jorge Luis Borges, and I remember another mentioning Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two-Birds in the same way.
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If I have a daughter and she grows up to be an astronaut, she's gonna end up on a Black History Month stamp.
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It's a bit odd to have a daughter who sounds American.
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The Lord's our shepherd, says the psalm. But just in case, we better get a bomb.
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Town of River Heights, frequently discussed puzzling aspects of cases with his blond, blue-eyed daughter.
