Edith Wharton Quotes
What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.
Edith Wharton
Quotes to Explore
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In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.
Dana Rohrabacher
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
Action Bronson
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
Feist
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
Lacey Chabert
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
Rachele Brooke Smith
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
Salman Rushdie
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
Ralph Lauren
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
G. Gordon Liddy
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We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.
Zac Goldsmith
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
Randy Quaid
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
Jack Canfield
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When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
Pearl S. Buck
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Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don't like them very much.
Alan Ayckbourn
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You need friends, especially in the theatre, you need friends. You need people to interchange with, interface with, connect with. Together you’re going to make it, you’re going to do it together, you’re going to put it on, whatever it is.
Al Pacino
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People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.
Ann Wilson
Heart
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What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.
Edith Wharton
