Alice Morse Earle Quotes
The study of tavern history often brings to light much evidence of sad domestic changes. Many a cherished and beautiful home, rich in annals of family prosperity and private hospitality, ended its days as a tavern.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.
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My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you're talking 'Madden.'
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
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Did I shop Kmart for clothing? No, I didn't. But I loved that I could be totally involved in the hangtags, the buttons, the commercials and with the designers. Something in my head said 'Yes.' I was adventurous.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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The chips are in production, the machines aren't. So we've got a little bit of work left to do.
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Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.
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I just lost interest in performing.
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It's weird to get gifted things as an actress because it usually happens when you've made a movie, and you can finally afford something, and then these fashion labels give it to you for free.
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To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god.
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Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.
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I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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The study of tavern history often brings to light much evidence of sad domestic changes. Many a cherished and beautiful home, rich in annals of family prosperity and private hospitality, ended its days as a tavern.
