Emily James Smith Putnam Quotes
In contemporary society the typical lady is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history.
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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I'd like to do more family dramas.
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It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it doesn't suit your lifestyle, it's really wasted.
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When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
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I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.
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Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.
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You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.
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Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it.
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I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.
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I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I was growing up in school, and the federal government didn't want us taught about the history of the war, because they thought it probably would make us generate a new generation of rebels.
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The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
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You cannot work with men who won't work with you.
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In contemporary society the typical lady is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history.
