Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes
There was sturdy pioneer blood in Eleanor, the strain that meets crises clear-eyed and bravely.
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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
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We've all got hurdles we have to overcome, and mine are not necessarily any bigger than anyone else's.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I think we can launch - successfully, high quality - around 20 original scripted shows a year, which means every 2 1/2 to three weeks you're launching a new season or a new show on Netflix meant to be for really diverse tastes all around the world.
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I can trust in Jesus. And this Gospel that we preach does work. So those who are hurting and suffering today, hang in there. The sun will shine again.
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We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.
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I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
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With all due respect to the people who made the motorcycle movies during the '60s, I felt the sophistication level could be a bit higher, and I felt I could raise the bar on that, too.
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I don't sit well. I like to move around as I talk.
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I would like my kids to go to college and be exposed to the real world and to make their own decisions and find their own path instead of sending them somewhere where they would be creatively conditioned for one life path or another.
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When I was young, watching historical movies made me feel absolutely sublime. But the first few times I visited costume museums, I was really disappointed because it was not at the level I saw in movies. It was not the level of the image I'd imagined.
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I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.
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People in this world shun people for being great, for being a bright color, for standing out. But the time is now, to be OK with being the greatest you.
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The proud spirit of the original owners of these vast prairies inherited through centuries of fierce and bloody wars for their possession, lingered last in the bosom of Sitting Bull. With his fall the nobility of the Redskin is extinguished, and what few are left are a pack of whining curs who lick the hand that smites them.
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Comrade Mao, whether he was crossing 'a sea of surging waves' or scaling 'a mountain pass impregnable as iron' always held unwaveringly to his course, setting a shining example for the Chinese Communist Party.
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This isn't just an unhappy planet. Sometimes very good things can happen.
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Girls are not passive by nature. They are only so because the culture demands they be.
