Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes
That was the trouble of being old. Your body no longer obeyed you. It did unruly and unreasonable things. An eye suddenly might not see for a moment. Your knees gave out at the wrong time, so that when you thought you were walking north, you might find yourself going a little northwest. Your brain, too, had that same flighty trick. You might be speaking of something and forget it temporarily,—your mind going off at a little to the northwest, too, so to speak.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.
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I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
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Sometimes people ask me how old I am, and I have to stop and remember. I forget myself!
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Keeping your space clean is as much a part of the end result as the dish being tasty.
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I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
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As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.
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The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
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When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.
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Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.
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What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.
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Mr. Sensible learned only catchwords from them. He could talk like Epicurus of spare diet, but he was a glutton. He had from Montaigne the language of friendship, but no friend.
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I'd never left America until I was 18.
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I think the furthest I ever got was Guitar Hero. If I could start a band like that, I think I could do it.
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The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.
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The brain knows the real secret of seduction, more effective than even music and martinis. Just keep whispering, 'Gee, you are really special' to that sack of water and protein that is a body, and you can get it to do practically anything.
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That was the trouble of being old. Your body no longer obeyed you. It did unruly and unreasonable things. An eye suddenly might not see for a moment. Your knees gave out at the wrong time, so that when you thought you were walking north, you might find yourself going a little northwest. Your brain, too, had that same flighty trick. You might be speaking of something and forget it temporarily,—your mind going off at a little to the northwest, too, so to speak.
