Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes

Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates thrust upon them.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

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• I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!

  

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• I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.

  

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• When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.

  

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• Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.

  

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• I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.

  

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• To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'

  

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• I did a crazy version of 'Romeo and Juliet' once, and I played Romeo.

  

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• I'm constantly questioning the effects technology has had on our lives and the effect that monetary debt has had on all of us. We keep this as a dark little secret: 'This is how much interest I owe.'

  

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• I have fought all over the world, and I am excited to be in 'EA Sports MMA' because this game is going to show the global appeal of mixed martial arts.

  

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• Those who want to perpetuate apartheid also seek to divert your attention to the false issue of communism, to send the entire American public on a witch hunt.

  

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• I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

  

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• Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.

  

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• The central control center of the soul is the mind. Therefore, the mind is the battlefield and will determine whether or not we have victory or defeat in our Christian lives. This is why the Bible instructs us to renew our minds with God’s Word. The Word keeps us in God’s perfect will for our lives.

  

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• She dearly hoped her gender would not be a problem because she did not have the time to educate a man on the fine points of what a woman of the nineteenth century could achieve.

  

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• Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates thrust upon them.

  

  Bess Streeter Aldrich
  • Achieve
  • Girls
  • Dates