Zoe Akins (Zoe Byrd Akins) Quotes
Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing.

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You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
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What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
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Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
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I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
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If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.
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I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
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Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.
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Everyone asks me why someone Turkish is making Greek yogurt. In Greece, it is not called 'Greek yogurt.' Everywhere in the world it is called 'strained yogurt.' But because it was introduced in this country by a Greek company, they called it 'Greek yogurt.'
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In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they've made and why they've made them, to be able to acknowledge when they've made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate.
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I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.
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I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.
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At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square.
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I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.
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I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat.
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Heart's always been sort of like a cockroach. You can set off a bomb, and it'll still be alive underneath.
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Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.
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No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.
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If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.
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I can truly say - and this in virtue of the whole structure of my thought - that I now feel more indissolubly bound to the hierarchical Church and to the Christ of the Gospel than ever before in my life. Never has Christ seemed to me more real, more personal or more immense.
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Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing.