Alphonse Karr Quotes
I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.
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Anonymity breeds meanness.
Sam Altman
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
F. Gary Gray
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There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
Queen Latifah
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
Olympia Dukakis
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'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
Karin Slaughter
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
Daniel Boulud
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
Yani Tseng
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The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.
O. J. Simpson
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
Jack Finney
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
Sam Kean
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I want to go skydiving. I'd love to go to the Galapagos. Nature still excites me.
Wayne Knight
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A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment.
Rabih Alameddine
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Like every girl, we don't talk about our surgeries.
Candis Cayne
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
Jack Kevorkian
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We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans.
Oskar Schindler
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
Larry Kramer
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My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.
Nana Mouskouri
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Let the Lord your God be your hope – seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people who hope from him riches or perishable and transitory honours, in short they hope to get from God things which are not God himself.
Saint Augustine
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We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.
Victor Hugo
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Hell, have I been a hell-raiser!
Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien
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It's always great to have a great mascara that makes your lashes look thick and full. That's a definite must have.
Tara Leigh Patrick
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I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.
Alphonse Karr