Carolyn Wells Quotes
There are many ways of discarding books. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'
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For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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I like the idea of sending my Aquazurra girls out with a lucky charm under their feet.
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Our family business was operating batting cages. The pitching machine spit out the balls at lightning speed. Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax. Whitey Ford. 50 cents for 12 pitches. Of course, my mother ran the place, and I was her slave: selling candy, hosing down the street, and the most dreaded of all jobs, feeding the pitching machine with balls.
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My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions.
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I don't think there's something inherently irreligious about comics.
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Music videos are an especially fun thing to watch - I bet from the outside, too - because you learn so much, just like in our music... It's really fun work.
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I just had a normal African childhood; we played football a lot, but it was always in the street and always without shoes. Boots were very expensive, and when there are seven in your family, and you say you want to buy a pair, your father wants to kill you.
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
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I think if they suddenly cut away and you realize there is a stunt guy, you're out of the movie.
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All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.
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His best companions, innocence and health;And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
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Is adult entertainment killing our children? Or is killing our children entertaining adults?
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You can't close your eyes to the lies perpetrated by dangerous fools / 'cos they're handing out rules
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Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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Why should anyone be interested in my life? It's the prurience I find so extraordinary. Why, why, oh why should my private life be of any interest to the public? The only people who should be interested are my friends.
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In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.
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The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.
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There are many ways of discarding books. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.
