Edith Wharton Quotes
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Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.
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Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.
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I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.
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Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
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Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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The divine wisdom which requires a division of labor has sown different abilities and tendencies in human nature and has enabled human beings to carry out the duty of establishing sciences and developing technology. The fulfillment of this duty is obligatory upon humanity as a whole, though not on every individual.
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I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.
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When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.
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I just had fun making the movies - just being on set - but I didn't really care about the acting part.
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.
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I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.
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I just find things that work and embellish them.
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You have considerable choice in how you end your fiction. For all stories, the basic rule is the same: Choose the type of ending that best suits what's gone before.
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Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
