Babe Paley Quotes
I'm still one of those persons who prefers to wear pants, especially for at-home entertaining.
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Anonymity breeds meanness.
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in.
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Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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The key to good grilling is to recognize that you are setting yourself up to cook in a whole new environment. This is actually one of the main purposes of grilling - to get yourself outside.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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In Genesis 6:3, it says man can live to be 120, but there is no scientific basis for it.
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I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.
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Of course, no one wants to ban the vote. Voting should remain available for sporting and recreational purposes. But certain types of votes clearly should be curtailed - 'assault votes,' for example, in which the only purpose of the vote is to harm others.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.
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On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
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I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.
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Autumn in felted slipper shuffles on, Muted yet fiery.--Vita Sackville-West
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I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort.
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A book should push the reader to confront himself and the world.
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I think there are a lot of artists that are very traditional. I think someone can be a fan of someone like Josh Turner and then turn around and be a big fan of someone like Taylor Swift because, at the end of the day, it's all about those songs. I feel like country music has the best songwriting and the best songs of any genre.
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When I was reporting crime... I never had the sense of clockwork conspiracies or some kind of imposing order of evil. What I sensed was things just sort of falling apart.
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I'm still one of those persons who prefers to wear pants, especially for at-home entertaining.
