Alexander Graham Bell Quotes
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
Quotes to Explore
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So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.
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Even among those who I would not count as 'friends,' I have met many people online who have simply commented on my work or are interested by what I do.
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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
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When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day.
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I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.
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India is a country with huge potential, and it remains an attractive high priority market for PepsiCo. We believe we have only scratched the surface of long term growth opportunities that exist for PepsiCo and our partners.
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What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching some sort of clarity - even if it is only clarity about the gaps in our knowledge.
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In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of the 'Feminine Mystique.'
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It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It's giving that person a lot of power.
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It feels so good to tell the truth.
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Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.
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I like having curves - I'm proud of them!
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The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.
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A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.
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I joke that the Olympics is the warm-up to the Paralympics.
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I just take this job very seriously. It's almost like you play a kid's game for a king's ransom. And if you don't take it serious enough, eventually, one day, you're going to say, 'Oh, I could have done this, I could have done that.'
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Even if somebody disagrees with you, their life is still valuable.
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I've had a lifelong love affair with makeup. When I was a little girl, I used to take my mother's makeup and paint all of my dolls' faces, and I even painted the dog's face!
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I want to be on set and die hearing those words: Where's Peter?
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A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
