Alice Morse Earle Quotes
The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. But I cannot think any save the most ignoble criminals ever sat in a ducking-stool.

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Some films shouldn't be remade.
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In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
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A different language is a different vision of life.
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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
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Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers.
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You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.
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I always tell people I'm very large in Uzbekistan.
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There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.
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I want to do movies but not talk about them.
Nastassja Kinski -
There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.
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People who know very little about ancient Egypt are most likely, if they know anything at all, to have at least a vague idea about the Pharaoh Akhenaten and be able to recognize the face of his beautiful wife, Nefertiti.
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Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.
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You think I'm going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way.
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Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion.
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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers,And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,A gauntlet with a gift in't.
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'...reality’s always dull, you know...'
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Why does everybody agree that atmospheric oxygen... comes from life, but no one speaks about the other gases coming from life?
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A moment for me that changed everything was hearing my song on the radio for the first time.
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Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor.
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I predicted in August that Celtic would reach the final. On the eve of that final I stand by that prediction.
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We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.
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Johns experience as a college and NFL running back, as well as the coaches he has both played for and coached with, makes him an ideal person to coach our backfield. He has been successful coaching both NFL and college running backs. We are very fortunate to have him join us.
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The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. But I cannot think any save the most ignoble criminals ever sat in a ducking-stool.