Carl Sandburg Quotes
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.
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Faith is personal if it's to be real.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.
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I grew up pretty much with nothing.
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I am very excited to be able to work more with young designers and support them.
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Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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My idea of an actor is to be different persons with different roles. Every time a script interests me, I look for interesting characters because I intend to completely transport myself into it. This happens only because I am a very greedy actor. I am not part of the rat race because I am living a dream.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
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Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'
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I won 21 titles in seven years: three titles per year playing in this way. I'm sorry, guys. I'm not going to change.
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I think we Chinese are just as capable, as diligent, as hardworking, as peace-loving, and as creative as people everywhere.
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When I found out I was pregnant, I was over the moon about it, but I was upset I wasn't married!
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I find texting to be kind of a safe space.
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This crowded world of Space was perfectly real to him. How he had got to it I do not know. Perhaps his mind, dwelling constantly on the problem, had unsealed some atrophied cell and restored the old instinct. Anyhow, he was living his daily life with a foot in each world.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
