Gertrude Atherton Quotes
A long while ago an eager group of reformers wrote to me asking if I could suggest anything that would improve the morals of the American people. I replied that the trouble with the American people in general was not lack of morals but lack of brains.
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I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.
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I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
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I experimented and explored ways to find my own niche in Nashville, and I was having trouble with it for a while because stylistically, I didn't feel like I necessarily fit in.
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You know what, I am not gonna lie, that Taylor Swift 'Trouble' song? I can't resist that song. Her melodies are very catchy.
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I'm shy, but I'm not clinically shy. I don't have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties.
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If you own a chemical plant and leak a little benzene, you're in big trouble because everyone knows how carcinogenic it is. But coming out of a tailpipe? The government never does anything about that.
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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
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I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar.
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Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.
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Like many young men in the South, he had trouble ruling out the possible. They are not like an immigrant's son in Passaic who desires to become a dentist and that is that. Southerners have trouble ruling out the possible. What happens to a... man to whom all things seem possible and every course of action open? Nothing of course.
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One can get very fond of the people one meets in bars. The trouble is they then appear sort of different in the daylight and you realize that taking them with you is rather like taking a goldfish for a walk: not entirely correct, and surprising for the next people you run into.
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Central bankers got it right in the United States in 1987 when they avoided deflationary pressures as well as serious trouble in the banking system.
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Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
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I lived out my little rock'n'roll fantasy, I just wish I hadn't gotten into so much trouble for it.
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The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide open spaces surrounded by teeth.
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When you have a food safety system that's voluntary and not mandatory, you're in a situation in which everybody wants everybody else to go first. So as a normal course of doing business, food companies cut corners and don't want to take the kind of trouble and the kind of testing and the kind of careful procedures that are required to produce the safe food because they don't have to.
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Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
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The bands that do well don't get caught up in fads; they are just true to themselves.
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The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.
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The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic.
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If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
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A long while ago an eager group of reformers wrote to me asking if I could suggest anything that would improve the morals of the American people. I replied that the trouble with the American people in general was not lack of morals but lack of brains.
