Tallulah Bankhead Quotes
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.
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I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.
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If I were to continue to work in an established mode, it stands to reason the work would be limited by this - that it would never surpass the prior work in quality.
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Love can never be fully explained.
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I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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I never do anything out of my comfort zone.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.
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I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.
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The tabernacle of unity hath been raised; regard ye not one another as strangers.
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I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
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I never was a popular kid in class.
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.
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Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.
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I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.
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The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are out to impose upon the nation their modish fads and fallacies, and have nearly succeeded in doing so. In this cultural issue, we are, without reservations, on the side of excellence (rather than "newness") and of honest intellectual combat (rather than conformity).
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It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
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I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
