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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The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
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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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Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent.
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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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Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.
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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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Reason gains all people by compelling none.
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I distinguish between maniacs and crazy people; a maniac will beat nine people to death with a steel dildo. A crazy person will beat nine people to death with a steel dildo, but he'll be wearing a Bugs Bunny suit at the time.
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The charge is prepared; the lawyers are met; The judges all ranged (a terrible show!) I go, undismay'd.—For death is a debt, A debt on demand.—So take what I owe.
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Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.
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I know I've got a death wish. I've never enjoyed my life, I've never liked people. I love the mountains because they are the negation of life, indestructible, inhuman, untouchable, indifferent, as I want to be.
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I can't believe that OMON [Russia's riot police] would hit a girl. I simply can't imagine it.
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Death is not the worst sorrow.
