Emilie Loring Quotes
She rebelled against the emptiness and meaninglessness of her life. She hoped that when Bruce was her age he too would rebel if he found his life intolerable. She hoped he would want to do something about it; anything was better than to submit to your fate supinely.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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I'm going into my first Olympics, whereas people I'm racing against are going into their third and fourth and probably last Olympics. So there's more pressure on them to perform. I've still got a whole future ahead of me. I am not even the Olympic champ.
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
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I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.
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I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance.
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I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.
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Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.
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My father was a milkman. So, I delivered milk.
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Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're there - and that presence makes people feel secure.
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No one is perfect. Everybody does stupid things.
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Life doesn't care about your vision. Stuff happens, and you've just got to deal with it. You roll with it; that's the beauty of it all.
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After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.
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We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.
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Our performance, relatively, is likely to be better in a bear market than in a bull market … in a year when the general market had a substantial advance, I would be well satisfied to match the advance of the averages.
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Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought.
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All life is a struggle for existence. Why should it cease to be a struggle if it spreads among the stars?
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I love actors. I married one. OK, I married a fantastic one.
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Doing the movies and meeting the people, and I like the stories of the movies. I like names a lot, too. When I do an audition, there is a script and it has a first page that has the names of all the characters. I'm like, “Let me see that real quick, I wanna see what my name is gonna be.
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She rebelled against the emptiness and meaninglessness of her life. She hoped that when Bruce was her age he too would rebel if he found his life intolerable. She hoped he would want to do something about it; anything was better than to submit to your fate supinely.
