George William Curtis Quotes
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.
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For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
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Most of my stuff hasn't gone viral. I have been successful on YouTube and I'm very proud of the stuff that I've done, but compared to the people who are actual internet stars and making a living off of it, my views are nothing.
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
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I fell in love with science and decided to continue for my Ph.D., and from there on, I was a scientist.
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The fashion world doesn't know the word 'stop,' so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day.
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One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play.
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If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.
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'Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?'
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We went to the hospital; it was full. The doctor told me that two hundred had died the day before. I asked the cause of death; he shrugged and said, 'Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.'
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It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.
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After I won the Pulitzer, there was this sense of, 'OK, that's enough for you. Now go away.' What I wanted was to keep writing, keep working. But no one would produce anything of mine they didn't think would be as big as 'night, Mother.'
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If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it.
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I've got quite a big fan base, and people like to see you do the same thing - that's why you get offered the same roles.
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Tell me that I got the fattest pussy in the whole world & if I let him eat it I can be his old girl
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
