Blanche Wiesen Cook Quotes
And if you look at pictures of Eleanor between 1918 and 1921, she becomes anorexic. She really loses a tremendous amount of weight. That's when her teeth really go bad. It's a terrible, terrible time for her. And she has five children, ranging in age from three to 10. It's an emotionally terrible ordeal.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!
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The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.
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Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.
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If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.
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When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
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I want to be proactive in bringing about change and enlightening people.
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I think 30 is a big jump from your 20s, but 40 holds no fear for me.
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There is a secret agreement between past generations and the present one. Our coming was expected on earth. Like every generation that preceded us, we have been endowed with a weak Messianic power, a power to which the past has a claim. That claim cannot be settled cheaply.
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But to succeed in life every detail should be arranged well beforehand.
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Existence is illusory and it is eternal.
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I'm open to everything. Take me anywhere, show me everything.
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I'm a good Jewish boy from Edison, New Jersey, so I went and saw 'Fiddler on the Roof' because you have to: that's part of your bar mitzvah experience.
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We hear people talk about putting a price on carbon, but they won't talk about how much that price of carbon is.
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I'm from Cleveland, Ohio, which has one of the largest Jewish populations in a single district in the state of Ohio and almost anyplace else in the United States.
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I still sing, but completely for my own pleasure. I play a nightclub singer in 'Sparkle,' but I'd like to pursue it a bit more. I sang at a friend's 60th at Claridge's the other month; I did 'Baby It's Cold Outside' with the actor Hilton McRae, and 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow.'
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If you want a friend, buy a dog.
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Sitcom food is by far the tastiest of all showbiz food.
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As a Christian, we always fail because we can't become Christ. But I can try to at least emulate the best qualities, even if I may fall short.
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I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it.
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It seems every morning I wake up to face a list of 20 things to do, with time only to do 10, and somehow I always wind up squishing in 30.
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There are a lot of homes for boys, but very few for girls, that is why I chose to do for girls.
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I'm tired of answering questions about myself.
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And if you look at pictures of Eleanor between 1918 and 1921, she becomes anorexic. She really loses a tremendous amount of weight. That's when her teeth really go bad. It's a terrible, terrible time for her. And she has five children, ranging in age from three to 10. It's an emotionally terrible ordeal.
