Carolyn Wells Quotes
I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.
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State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.
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What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
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I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
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Without a song, each day would be a century.
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The only two shows I watch are 'Walking Dead' and 'Nashville,' but both just went off the air for a couple of months, so I feel like I have to be productive because I'm not sitting around waiting for the next episode of zombies or mainstream country music.
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It doesn't necessarily take four years to write a good piece of music. It might take four hours. It just depends on when your inspiration comes.
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I had been thinking about social awkwardness and about people you meet who are not bad people - there is nothing wrong with them, but they are just a little bit awkward, and it makes you feel uncomfortable, and it makes you want to bring the encounter to an end. I thought, 'Is there a reason for that? What has contributed to their demeanour?'
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The entertainment industry is pretty nuts, and having had that experience outside of it and going to university has really made a big difference. It's important to me to feel like I have my own life.
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The Republican Party is too fixated on this fiction of electability.
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I know, it was a little bit out of control, but hey. It was all fun.
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Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?
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People are what this election is all about.
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Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of others.
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For the last 15 years, Microsoft’s master business plan seems to have been, 'Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it.'
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I've made a point of not being, say what I refer to as a 'careerist' about anything.
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The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.
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Whatever I have said is in the interest of the system, and it has never been taken amiss.
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I'm praying Baggy can go and I'm praying that Rocket will come back.
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The strongest argument in favor of the gospel is a loving and lovable Christian.
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I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.
