Kate Douglas Wiggin Quotes
Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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Tom Foley was a statesman, and it was a privilege to serve under him when he was the Speaker of the House. He loved our country. He was a gentleman. I had the privilege of seeing him a couple days before he passed away.
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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
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L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.
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I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.
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When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.
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I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.
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If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.
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I've done everything every fat person ever has. I've tried every diet.
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I came out of a family background that involved itself with people.
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Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.
