Erskine Caldwell Quotes
Influence is a very tenuous matter. I try to avoid it in every respect. I don't want to be influenced by anybody.
Erskine Caldwell
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
Wangari Maathai
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
Barbara McClintock
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
Jack Keane
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Young people really want you to give them a road map, and they will follow it to a tee. If you tell them, 'These are the eight steps you have to take to be successful,' they will do all eight very earnestly.
Dana Perino
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I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.
J. Anthony Lukas
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I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
Talulah Riley
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I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
Adam Driver
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
E. O. Wilson
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My mother, Robin Bell, is the master of balancing the finite line between classic and creative when it comes to fashion. Mom has no qualms about unleashing the pinking shears on a vintage Givenchy dress if it means she'll wear it more once it's sleeveless.
Lake Bell
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I've been in many auditions thinking, 'God, do I have to take my shirt off?'
Sam Heughan
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The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.
Valerie Jarrett
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Blogs are easy to start, but unless the author is famous, it takes years to build a following.
Adam D'Angelo
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I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests.
Aaron Koblin
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This is ludicrous. Seven- and eight-year-olds valiantly trying to cover the same acreage as those grown-up chaps in the Premier League is absurd. To add to the lunacy, a little goalkeeper, barely out of nappies, has to stand between posts that are eight strides apart - adult strides - and under a crossbar more than twice his height.
Gary Lineker
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I never thought that I'd be dancing with Shia LaBeouf. When I heard he was going to be my partner, I was like, 'Does he even dance?' He doesn't, really, but he's such a sweet person.
Maddie Ziegler
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You step over the threshold of your parents' home, and you're instantly transported back to your childhood. It's like time travel. You revert at once to a place of arrested development.
Tamsin Greig
