Tallulah Bankhead Quotes
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
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Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.
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Toasting is basically what you call rapping. It came off of playing the beats at the parties, however it be. You find a space in the beat, and you have somebody live just basically saying rhymes over the beat.
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When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.
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In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
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With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
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I've been blessed with a wonderful husband, two caring daughters and sons-in-law, and four really special grandchildren. They have each enhanced my life.
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One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is - the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.
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Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
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When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.
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Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.
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No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and fools you every minute of every day. And so when you're talking about the past, you're talking about something that never happened. At least it didn't happen the way you think it happened.
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Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
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My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients.
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Social man lives constantly outside himself.
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People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages!
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The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
