Les Baxter Quotes
I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.
Les Baxter
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
Frances Beinecke
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When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
Garrison Keillor
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
Taraji P. Henson
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
Dana Perino
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I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.
Dan Quayle
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
Federico Fellini
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
Eckhart Tolle
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I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I'm much more of a girl that's a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.
Vera Wang
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Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.
Edgar Meyer
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Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.
Ian Mckellen
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Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.
Malcolm Lowry
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Keyless entry in a car is something that we're used to. Somehow, the home has been very resistant to this. Some of it has to do with security, but today we know that technology, when things are invisible, is actually safer than physical artifacts.
Yves Behar
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Wisdom for the Soul of Black Folk by Larry Chang, Gnosophia Publishers, Roderick Terry
Alex Rodriguez
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Half of my family is in Los Angeles, so my cousin was the first person to play me, like, Snoop Dogg, and I would always feel like, 'OMG, I shouldn't be listening to this,' and my other cousin was the first to introduce me to Aaliyah, so every time I'd go to the West Coast, I'd get those West Coast vibes.
Jillian Hervey
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Growing up in Ireland, there never seemed to be the notion that children should be seen and not heard. We all looked forward to mealtimes when we'd sit around the table and talk about our days. Storytelling and long, rambling conversations were considered good things.
Maeve Binchy
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For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.
Vanessa Mae
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North Shore Animal League America is so dear to my heart not only for the amazing people that work there, the innovative life-saving programs they have, and the mission to rescue, nurture, and adopt but also for the hard work and dedication this organization has to the cause. They have saved over one million lives since their inception, and they are the world's largest no-kill animal rescue and adoption organization.
Beth Ostrosky Stern
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I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.
Les Baxter
