Alice Morse Earle Quotes
Our Puritan forefathers, though bitterly denouncing all forms and ceremonies, were great respecters of persons; and in nothing was the regard for wealth and position more fully shown than in designating the seat in which each person should sit during public worship.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
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The starting point of all achievement is desire.
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It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it's quite like acting.
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We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.
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I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.
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I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.
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Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
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Slavery existed all over the world. The Egyptians had slaves. The Chinese had slaves. The Africans did. American Indians had slaves long before Columbus. And tragically, slavery continues today in many countries. What's uniquely Western is the abolition of slavery. And what's uniquely American is the fighting of a great war to end it.
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As soon as you're willing to humble yourself and say, God, please help - then you can find out that His strength really is perfect, that He really does care for you, that He does really want to meet your need.
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Normally when one reporter talks to you at a tournament it's no big deal.
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One day when I was bored, I just went down to a powerlifting gym, Via Strength Systems in Albuquerque. I knew I needed to expend my energy somehow. I started working out with them four days a week. I became obsessed with lifting and being fit.
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Our Puritan forefathers, though bitterly denouncing all forms and ceremonies, were great respecters of persons; and in nothing was the regard for wealth and position more fully shown than in designating the seat in which each person should sit during public worship.
