E. W. Howe Quotes
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The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
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With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.
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I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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I'm bigger now than when I was eating meat. My lifts in the gym are better. I'm in better shape.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!
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I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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I played the bars in northern California since I was 18. We played at least three hours, and there's no which-way about it: That definitely helped.
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I founded Wang Laboratories . . . to show that Chinese could excel at things other than running laundries and restaurants.
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All you do is head straight for the grave, a face just covers a skull awhile. Stretch that skull-cover and smile.
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A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
