Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes
Junior was eleven. The statement is significant. There are a few peevish people in the world who believe that all eleven-year-old boys ought to be hung. Others, less irritable, think that gently chloroforming them would seem more humane. A great many good-natured folks contend that incarceration for a couple of years would prove the best way to dispose of them.
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I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.
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That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
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And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.
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So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.
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In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human.
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There's a child within me. Everything is fascinating. The hunger to learn, do better and more creative things never goes.
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One of my favorite things to make is homemade sushi. I know how to make the rolls and it's really fun to do.
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Roger Ballen is pretty much a member of Die Antwoord, it would be safe to say.
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I think JR would make a better President than the one we have now.
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We should all consider each other as human beings, and we should respect each other.
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Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.
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Obviously sex and nudity sells, but that's what people go to cable for but that's not going to happen on network daytime television... so I think it really is always going to come down to story. How do you make a story interesting enough so people will tune in? That's always going to be it.
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Producing never stops. It's 24/7.
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I believe in my writing.
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I lived the war in Iraq, and today I still have family and friends fighting in Iraq. My support for our troops is unwavering. I believe this is not a time for finger-pointing, it is a time for truth - the whole truth- vs. hype, and misinformation.
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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
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The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.
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Junior was eleven. The statement is significant. There are a few peevish people in the world who believe that all eleven-year-old boys ought to be hung. Others, less irritable, think that gently chloroforming them would seem more humane. A great many good-natured folks contend that incarceration for a couple of years would prove the best way to dispose of them.
