Alison Sweeney Quotes

I was never obese, but I felt 'less than' because I wasn't as thin as other actresses. I totally fell for that low-fat craze. My goal was to be X jeans size or a specific number on the scale.

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• I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.

  

  Paris Hilton
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• When I took my first job, I was among only a handful of women. It was isolating at times. My love for technology kept me going, and I got to where I am today driven by my passion and self confidence.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
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• Lanai at one time grew 98% of the world's pineapples. But the world's pineapples are now grown in two places, Costa Rica and Panama, because no one wants to spend $45 for a pineapple from the United States.

  

  Larry Ellison
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• When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.

  

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• Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. It cannot be manipulated or discouraged because love cannot be manipulated or discouraged.

  

  Gary Zukav
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• The idea was always to be an actor.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
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• I'm just going to have to grow old, because I'm too terrified to have anything done.

  

  Natalie Wood
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• If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out.

  

  Oscar Isaac
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• Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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• Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
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• I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
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• 'Sharp it away, lad, sharp it away,' the burly guardsman said, making the blade skitter across the whetstone, 'lest otherways ye’ll be a girl afore ye’re a man.'

  

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• The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.

  

  Louis Kronenberger
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• Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than with the imagination being awake?

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
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• America, thankfully, is not an easy nation to commandeer.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
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• My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.

  

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• The death of Sid Caesar on Wednesday caused a chain reaction in my soon-to-be-66-year-old mind. I was saddened, of course, but felt a sense of relief that he was at last free from the indignity of aging.

  

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• I wasn't aware that Track Records were interested in the Bonzos.

  

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• If I'm tapping anything, it's the frustration of people who have something to say at work or home or in some social setting and just can't do it. I do it for them. I don't take prisoners.

  

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• American readers are so polite; their reactions make it seem like I've received thousands of thank-you notes. It's just lovely, and amazing the things people tell you that have touched them and related to their own lives.

  

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• My favorite kind of song is the most beautiful song that you love so much and it's so good it makes you want to cry a little bit. Any jam can sound like that on a certain day.

  

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• There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray you, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts. There's fennel for you, and columbines: — there 's rue for you; and here's some for me: — we may call it, herb of grace o'Sundays: — you may wear your rue with a difference. — There's a daisy: — I would give you some violets; but they withered all, when my father died: — They say, he made a good end.

  

  William Shakespeare
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• You've got very powerful, very intelligent and very imaginative people on both sides.

  

  Felix Rohatyn
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• I was never obese, but I felt 'less than' because I wasn't as thin as other actresses. I totally fell for that low-fat craze. My goal was to be X jeans size or a specific number on the scale.

  

  Alison Sweeney