Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quotes
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.
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I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.
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I love science fiction. There are ways in which this community kept me and my partner alive through some very, very bad years, and I will always acknowledge that.
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Of course I want to have a family, but there's a right time for everything. When my time comes, it will happen.
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Since I started in Nascar, popularity has definitely gone up. I've become more attractive and helpful to companies that are looking for spokespersons. So from that perspective, things are going really well.
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As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.
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I'm not going to starve just to be thin... I want to enjoy life and I can't if I'm not eating and miserable.
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I do all the cooking in our family. I'm a utilitarian cook, rather than an adventurous one - I only have about 15 recipes in my repertoire that I rotate - but I love being able to go down to the river and catch a 30 lb. salmon, then grill it on the barbecue.
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You can't promulgate injustice without consequences.
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I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
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Things don't get any easier by putting them off.
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Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did.
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When you are interviewing refugees, each person you talk to has a different story that could come from a horror movie. So many people talk about seeing their families get murdered before their eyes. Then I go to Central Park, and people are talking about their third divorce and paying tuition.
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Decorating is not about making stage sets, it's not about making pretty pictures for the magazines, it's really about creating a quality of life, a beauty that nourishes the soul.
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Don't want terrorism in US? Stop importing Muslims!
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The presumed causes of Americas troubles can be summed up simply: the evils of unlimited competition, and abuses by those with economic power.
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Death is not the worst sorrow.
