Alice B. Toklas Quotes
the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.
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I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
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If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
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In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.
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You've got to keep your eye on the prize and do what you love to do.
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People associate girls with long blonde hair with the girls in 'Clueless' or 'Legally Blonde.' You can't be smart and educated and have an opinion because you are supposed to be stupid.
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People say I look younger than the music I'm doing just because the songs are older. Hopefully I can keep my youthful look!
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I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.
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Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.
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I think character is very much a product of where you live, who you are, what is happening in that time of your life, and I'm interested in those pressures, those forces. A political context, a social context, really determines if not who people are then how they treat one another and what they say, how they speak.
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I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
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I'm as proud to be Chinese as I am American.
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The army is the true nobility of our country.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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Anything can happen when people run for office.
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the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.