Lewis Carroll Quotes

I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

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• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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  • Important
  • Remember

• If you can be a good example to other people, why not try to be that person? I have a bit of a people pleaser in me, but not so much so that it's out of control.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Good
  • Control

• I don't have the looks to compete at a bar, and I'm not that funny. So the last thing I want is to be in a situation where that's what I'm competing on. I'd rather be on OkCupid or Match, where I can write a 300-word essay about myself that's really good.

  

  Sam Yagan
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  • Funny
  • Myself

• But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

  

  Fiona Apple
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  • Dad

• When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's all the good and the bad, the laughs and the frowns that I went through and seen other people go through. Then you be trying to write it. Whatever's coming out, you try and make it all cool.

  

  Aaron Neville
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  • Good
  • Trying

• When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.

  

  M. Ward
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  • Work

• If I had it to do over, I might have finished school first, then devoted all my time to StumbleUpon instead of dividing my time between the two. In the end, however, it was probably good to take the time I did.

  

  Garrett Camp
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  • School

• The good thing about execution issues are that they are within our control.

  

  N. Robert Hammer
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  • Control
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• Whatever you are, be a good one.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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  • You
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• I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with being a minister's son. And now I know I'm pretty darn good at playing a woman too.

  

  Barry Watson
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• In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.

  

  Olympia Snowe
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  • Achieve
  • Finding

• People were saying, 'He's worth £32m? He tried a back-heel and fell over!' Even I laughed. In my head, I said, 'OK, you've seen the bad side, now come see the good side'.

  

  Eden Hazard
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• I've always had this passion to be creative, and wanted to sing or be in bands and make music, but I didn't have ideas as to what format it'd be, or how I'd do it. I'm not very good with plans. I didn't think it would be me at the front, either. In fact, I'd go as far as saying that was something I'd prevent.

  

  Laura Mvula
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  • Music
  • Passion

• My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.

  

  Ilie Nastase
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  • Ambition

• During 'Hawthorne', I was constantly trying not to be too outrageous and keep it serious. This has been so refreshing for me because it's such a good outlet for the inner me to just be. That's the whole point of 'Glee' anyways – to just be who you are and that's enough. I really feel that way on set.

  

  Vanessa Lengies
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  • Way
  • Me

• All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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  • Writing
  • Water

• Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

  

  Samuel Butler
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  • Good
  • Seeds

• There are certainly good examples of incredibly brilliant, beautiful music that has been made commercially available and sold everywhere. But I would say that, for the most part, quantity certainly does not speak well for quality.

  

  Ian MacKaye
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  • Music
  • Beautiful

• When you're in the National Football League, and you get this window where all eyes are on you, you can use that. You can use that platform for good.

  

  J. J. Watt
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  • Eyes
  • Football

• The good thing about having chemistry is, when you get to the improv section of a scene, you've got somebody to feed off. It can go on and on and on, and the sky's the limit.

  

  Kevin Hart
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  • Sky

• I'm obsessed with broccoli, carrots, celery, string beans, snap peas, black kale, brussels sprouts, cabbage - I could go on! They used to call me 'rabbit' when I was a kid. I hate mushrooms, though. I apologize to fungi lovers, but this way, there's more for you!

  

  Lisa Edelstein
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  • Lovers

• I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

  

  Pierre Corneille
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  • Honor

• I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

  

  Lewis Carroll
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  • Poems
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