Christina Stead Quotes
When he was away she could stand him, and the farther he was away the more she could stand him!
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I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!
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I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
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I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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I used to be vegan. I'm not anymore, but I don't eat hardly any meat. But it's nice for me to go to a place like Chipotle where I can get some fresh veggies, some brown rice, some black beans, and all that kind of stuff.
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Love to me, God, this is so difficult... To me, love is when you meet that person and you think, 'This is it, this is who I'm supposed to be with.'
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Naturalization is the process by which a citizen, or subject of a foreign nation or kingdom, is made a citizen of the United States. It is evident that the Constitutional Convention thought that it was important that this process should be placed under the exclusive control of the Federal Government and not of the States.
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I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.
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I don't eat red meat.
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
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It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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I miss submitting people; I have a lot of confidence in my jiu-jitsu.
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Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.
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Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.
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My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know.
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I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.
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When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
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They use their minds to create wealth—not by taking existing materials and turning them into more valuable goods, but by taking existing wealth and putting it toward more valuable uses. In short, financiers don’t create the products that enrich our lives—they help create (and nurture) all the businesses that create the products that enrich our lives.
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The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.
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I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.
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I can't stand Snapchat, but that will be extinct before it is relevant.
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When he was away she could stand him, and the farther he was away the more she could stand him!
