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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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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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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I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back.
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We can never say it often or loudly enough: Immigrants and refugees revitalize and renew America.
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Years of love have been forgotIn the hatred of a minute.
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The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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Obviously I believe in reincarnation and all that kind of stuff - I don't think anyone's going to be surprised to hear that.
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I don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out of phone range, because you can fall into a habit to such a degree that you don't even realise that you've lost something: silence.
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We would sit in the living room, drink a case of Busch beer, and throw the empty cans into the kitchen for no reason whatsoever, beyond the fact that it was the most overtly irresponsible way for any two people to live.
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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.
