E. W. Howe Quotes
People hate the man who is a constant drain on their sympathy.
E. W. Howe
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
Bayard Taylor
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.
Malcolm de Chazal
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Baruch Spinoza
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I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.
Ingmar Bergman
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
Barbara Mikulski
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There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.
Valerie Simpson
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She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.
Zadie Smith
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
Edmund White
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My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent.
Valerie Jarrett
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Gender is more of a continuum than we are willing to admit when we hit the restroom.
Neri Oxman
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People hate the man who is a constant drain on their sympathy.
E. W. Howe
