Edith Wharton Quotes

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

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• Any actor is happy to be involved with something that's challenging, controversial, and not easily palatable. Things that are too dumbed down or easy to swallow are uninteresting... It's good when people have such a polarizing response.

  

  Adam Driver
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• I learn something in the interviews from time to time.

  

  Samantha Bee
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• This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

  

  Iris DeMent
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• I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't.

  

  Ice T
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• Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I thought they were crazy.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
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• Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.

  

  Yair Lapid
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• I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

  

  Sally Field
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• I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
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• I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's supervision - and I made scrambled eggs. I felt so accomplished, like magic!

  

  Gail Simmons
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• I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
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• People are clamoring to hear good ideas as opposed to the lesser of two evils... Either the Democrats are going to win or the Republicans are going to win, but the losers are all of us out here as citizens that really do want meaningful change, and none of it's happening. There's no dialogue regarding meaningful change.

  

  Gary Johnson
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• Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.

  

  Fran Drescher
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• The pledge drive has everything going against it as broadcasting. It's repetitive. It's ad-libbed by people who can't ad-lib. It's about asking for money, which is something nobody wants to hear, even from their own relatives.

  

  Ira Glass
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• Music is very powerful and can make you feel whatever it is. If you listen to gospel, you're going to feel thankful, and you're going to want to call up people that you hate and tell them that you love them. When you listen to sexual music, it gets you in the mood.

  

  R. Kelly
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• Be reactionary. React to what the market wants. And the market wants one-on-one real time engagement. Now that we have the tools to engage, I'm going to continue fighting for the end user.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
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• When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's all the good and the bad, the laughs and the frowns that I went through and seen other people go through. Then you be trying to write it. Whatever's coming out, you try and make it all cool.

  

  Aaron Neville
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• Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.

  

  Ian Hacking
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• Weight training and working on being explosive helped me gain a few yards of pace. Even when I was small, I was stocky. Even if people pushed me, I managed to stay on my feet.

  

  Eden Hazard
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• The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment.

  

  Wendell Berry
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• I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, 'I spent a night with interesting people.'

  

  Aby Rosen
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• Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.

  

  Alan K. Simpson
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• On visiting India this time, because of my previous visit, I did have a certain amount of knowledge about the country, but I also felt that there was much greater interest in Japan and deeper interaction between the two countries now than the last time I was there.

  

  Akihito
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• The precious moments of life are too rare, too valuable to be forgotten when they have passed; we should hoard them as a miser hoards his gold, and bring them to light and rejoice over them often. We should all of us have a treasury of happy memories to sustain us when life is unbearably cruel, to brighten the gloom a little, to be stars shining through the darkness.

  

  Alfred Wainwright
  • Life
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• When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

  

  Edith Wharton
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