Lauren Bacall Quotes
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
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I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image.
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Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.
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If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.
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We provide business advice and guidance. We started it here in India first, and now we have taken it globally. India was the first for startup incubation in the world for us.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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Obviously I've gone out of my way in my career to not look good, so it's always nice to, every once in a while, get the opposite going.
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In the '80s, I got tired of the rat race. It was a terrible time for music. I wasn't part of that whole MTV craze. I did 'Go Ahead and Rain,' which was Madeleine Stowe's first bit, but felt no connection to it. I went many years where I didn't have to work.
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The growth of women's soccer and women's sports all around the world has been slow.
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We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer's needs.
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A lot of film stars are just playing themselves in different frocks.
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I don't want to see crocs end up as boots, bags and belts. We're killing and consuming our wildlife icons.
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If you are walking backward, away from something you think is a mistake, you may be right in supposing it is a mistake, but for you to be walking backward is never right. You know what happens to people who walk backward.... We are meant to walk forward, not backward, and reaction is always a matter of walking backward.
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I was just praying to get the ball up court and get a shot off.
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Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.
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I was born and bred a Catholic. I was brought up a very strong Catholic - I practiced in a seminary for four years, from eleven to fourteen, and trained to be a Catholic priest. So I was very steeped in all that.
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Patience was not my strong point.
