Lauren Bacall Quotes
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I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.
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Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
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I want to stress the importance of being fair to our readers. You should not impose your own view and prejudice on the readers and try to lead them to a conclusion. As a reader, I understand what a fair report is.
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I've always felt that children are the flowers of our future.
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The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.
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I never really drank coffee in college, but now I'm on my feet all day and out all night and can't believe it hasn't always been in my life. When morning comes I crave it.
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We must tell girls their voices are important.
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I absolutely love working with David Boreanaz, and Charisma Carpenter I completely adore – she teaches me to dance.
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Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.
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The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about.
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With the Red Sox, you have more of a literary interest in it. You know they're going to lose; you're just interested in how the plot is going to unfold.
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It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.
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When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.
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I just wanna build momentum again. Keeping yourself in work is one thing, keeping yourself in good work's another. But if it doesn't work out, so be it. As the Taoists say, Learn to accept that which you cannot change.
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'Friends' started because Rachel left her husband at the altar. This likability factor is just so stupid to me. It's the same thing as 'wish-fulfillment,' which is a big word you hear in a lot of Hollywood rooms. It basically means that people want to see other people living a life they can't lead, and I don't buy that. I think that's not true.
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I'm at the right age to work with dead people, but you have to be smart to be a CSI.
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My feeling was, you plant some seeds. If they grow, great; if they don't, you don't take it personally. Not my problem; I just kept planting. Just like a farmer.
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So many people think being single is the end of something, but it's really a beginning - a good beginning.
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Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
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Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.
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Playing bass for Metallica is like having free speech in Cuba.
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Do not entertain the notion that you ought to advance in your prayer. If you do, you will only find you have put on the brake instead of the acceleration. All real progress in spiritual things comes gently, imperceptibly, and is the work of God. Our crude efforts spoil it. Know yourself for the childish, limited and dependent soul you are. Remember that the only growth which matters happens without our knowledge and that trying to stretch ourselves is both dangerous and silly. Think of the Infinite Goodness, never of your own state.
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If goodness is its own reward, shouldn't we get a little something for being naughty?
