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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At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!
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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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The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be left up to the individual. No such organization has the right to take money out of the pockets of state workers without their proper consent.
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Most everybody thinks that if I want to get big rewards I need to take huge risks. But if you keep thinking that, you're gonna be broke.
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God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.
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There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.
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As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.
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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.
