Fannie Flagg Quotes
Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.
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The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
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First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio.
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Just try the effect of putting beauty into your life, a little every day. You will find it magical. It will broaden and light up your outlook upon the world as the acquisition of money or fame never can.
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I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.
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I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.
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I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.
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I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.' She said, 'No dear, it gets harder'.
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I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.
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Frankly, our adversaries are emboldened by the lack of American leadership in the world, and our friends and our allies, they have lost trust in us.
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Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.
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I am not an optimist. I'm a very serious possibilist. It's a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the world.
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My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.
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In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.
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Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.
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Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.
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Most people don't know how to tell stories.
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The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
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It is curious that while one's education is the part of one's life over the conditions of which one has least individual control, the results of it are held to brand one irrevocably.
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I find out more about Jack every week. Essentially, I'm the same character, but I'm having more fun this season because I'm doing more aliases, you know. I like the surprise of not knowing.
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Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.
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i do not question your sincerity-if anything, i object to your questioning the sincerity of other religions.i am not questioning their sincerity. i am questioning their validity.
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Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.
