Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes
It took all their common sense and philosophy to face life these days. The two are synonymous.
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A lot of people don't remember anything since 'Ice Ice Baby,' but I've got 3 records out since then and they're all successes - but not commercially.
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If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
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Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.
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It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.
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Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
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I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.
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I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie.
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Gay activists claim that because I don't subscribe to their political agenda, I am a homophobe, meaning I have a mental disorder - because that is what phobias are.
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When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
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I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.
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Even when I was a kid, I had this insane head of flaming hair. It looked like a wig.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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I don't like to be me. I'm not so comfortable being me on screen because then I'd be a presenter. I'm not Jimmy Fallon.
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I've been watching 'Californication' since the pilot aired and had always thought that it would be so much fun to guest star on.
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I regretted the solitary nature of the writer's life - other people, normal working people, spent their days with co-workers, rode the subway home with a crowd, walked through thronged streets. I worked at home, all by myself.
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It would be nice to be a bit autonomous again, to enjoy something a bit quiet.
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My mother was terribly invasive, all in the name of psychiatric honesty. It was a bad thing in some ways, but I do think it had the effect of making me interested in 'the truth' as a writer - more than beauty, more than having a shapely story.
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People say Malala's voice is being sold to the world. But I see it as Malala's voice reaching the world and resonating globally. You should think about what is behind Malala's voice. What is she saying? I am only talking about education, women's rights, and peace.
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My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics.
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In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.
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But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain.
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I have a little mantra: My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.
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It took all their common sense and philosophy to face life these days. The two are synonymous.
