Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
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I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude... I didn't have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.
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I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
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We're the first not-white family to ever live in the governor's mansion. My son-in-law is Puerto Rican. I have a beautiful little granddaughter who is half Korean and half Latina. I'm the only white guy in the house.
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I was definitely the kid in the back of the class with his head down the whole time not wanting to speak up and say anything.
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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time. Photography gladly accepts the challenge because it is at home in its element: namely, realism-real life-the now.
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I would like to announce my retirement from international and domestic first-class cricket. It is 16 years since I played my first Test match for India and today I feel it is an time to move on. Once I was like every other boy in India, with a dream of playing for my country. Yet I could never have imagined a journey so long and so fulfilling.
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I don't know that we really think any thoughts; we think connections between thoughts. That's where the mind moves, that's what's new, and the thoughts themselves have probably been there in my head or lots of other people's heads for a long time.
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I used to be a person who just peaked for the big events, not doing too many competitions, but now you've got to go round chasing all the points because if you're not taking them, someone else is.
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It's just about being an entertainer; it's about having all those tools over the years to do all sorts: films, musicals, playing a bit of piano, running a quiz show - it just becomes part of the job.
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Be the day short or be the day long, at last it weareth to evening song.
