Carolyn Wells Quotes
The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy The books that people talk about we never can recall And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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They hate whom they fear.
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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I don't concern myself too much about calories and fat.
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I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters.
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I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who I really am.
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This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.
Garry Kasparov
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Nothing is more common than good things: the point in question is only to discriminate them; and it is certain that they are all natural and within our reach and even known to all mankind.
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I realize that lawyers are brought up (probably from small children) to think that 'technically true' is what matters, but when you make public PR statements, they should be more than 'technically' true. They should be honest. There's a big f*cking difference.
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You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico.
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The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
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I think people take the word 'feminist' really seriously, and I think people are scared to use that word.
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Awards are great, as you get to meet up with friends and colleagues from your industry - a sort of reunion.
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Remember, MTV would only show white videos for a long time. Can you imagine that? That was the '80s when that happened. It's hard to even think of that now, you know?
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I grew up with a very romantic, idealized vision of New York, probably because of all the books I read and the movies I watched.
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There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.
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There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.
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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy The books that people talk about we never can recall And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.
