Letitia Baldrige Quotes
Politeness decrees that you must listen to be kind; intelligence decrees that you must listen to learn.
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If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.
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Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.
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Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
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I have this whole new audience now.
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Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
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The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.
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I have lots of favorite shows, but not reality! I don't like reality TV so much. I'm saddened by people who don't show respect to each other and to themselves. It's horrible. Unfortunately, that's demonstrated a lot on reality television.
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For my body, I like high-waisted jeans because they make your leg look longer and hides this extra thing on my stomach. You can eat extra food with it because it hides, and I like to tuck in my t-shirts.
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I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian.
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I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.
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You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.
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I feel great. I feel younger. And I don't feel anything at all. I don't know who knows, but right now I'm, how, how many years have I, fifty five, something like that. Forty three years old. And I feel like seventeen, like twenty five years ago.
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No matter who I meet, I won't have any pressure.
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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a Muslim country. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is not a slave of colonial forces like you and others. … Do not indulge yourself in things you have no business with! The lie is before you and the grave is in front of you!
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Even at the cost of what is called honor and honesty? That is comfortable philosophy, and having preached and practiced it all my days I've no right to condemn it. But the saints would call it sinful and dangerous and tell you that life should be one long penance full of sorrow, sacrifice and psalm-singing.
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The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.
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We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.
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Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.
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If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.
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The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator. To reach the goal he needs well developed and co-ordinated functioning of his body, senses, mind, reason and Self.
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He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that he is penetrating, so far as lies in his power, the human soul, and eradicating the light of reason and the love of liberty, when he is in every possible way preparing the public mind, by his vast influence, for making the institution of slavery perpetual and national.
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No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it.
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Politeness decrees that you must listen to be kind; intelligence decrees that you must listen to learn.
