Gertrude Atherton Quotes
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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January 14, 2000, was my first time on stage, and I've been hooked ever since. I got discovered nationally in Seattle by the now-defunct HBO Comedy Festival, and that led to an appearance on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' and a path to a professional comedy career.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.
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While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.
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Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.
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While the 20th century saw the world divided between a Communist East and a free and democratic West, new and different struggles define the 21st.
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I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and that gave me enough money to move down here. I was washing windows down in Orange County when they called me up and said they wanted me to do their TV show.
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If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.
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If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.
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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.
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Tamils all over the world have a sense of belonging to the world itself, but our ancient roots come from India. I would like to explore India. I will keep coming back. This is the closest I can get to home.
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Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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I like 'Futurama.' That's kind of the only thing that's my sci-fi thing, although I was big into zombies for a time.
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A tinker’s debt is always paid:Once for any simple trade.Twice for freely given aid.Thrice for any insult made.
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I'm not looking back, but I want to look around me now. - Time Stand Still (1987)
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Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.
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I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business.
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I venture to define science as a series of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiment and observation and fruitful of further experiments and observations. The test of a scientific theory is, I suggest, its fruitfulness.
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Every major federal campaign-finance-reform effort since 1943 has attempted to treat corporations and unions equally. If a limit applied to corporations, it applied to unions; if unions could form PACs, corporations could too; and so on. DISCLOSE is the first major campaign-finance bill that has not taken this approach.
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Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.
