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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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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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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For one reason or another, the good God has left me on this planet; surely, I will not sit around and not do what I do naturally.
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Even the bad interviews I think you learn from. They make you better.
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Every burden is a blessing.
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Black men - one might be the president. Well, America's in too much trouble - I don't want that job now.
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Some people put a lot of fuss around them. I'm not an entertainer. Let's not get things confused.
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You see a comic, and you're like, 'Oh wow: the Riddler has been drawn this way, and he's been drawn that way.' There are tons of looks, and his personality changes based on who's writing them.
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I liked seventeen-year-old me, I was happy when I was seventeen. I was this troubled goth kid that wore eyeliner and make-up to school and listened to punk-rock music and I loved my friends and I started to make music - I like seventeen-year-old me.
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Politeness decrees that you must listen to be kind; intelligence decrees that you must listen to learn.
