Margaret Wise Brown Quotes
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John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
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Occasionally, if I am very confident in the establishment, I'll risk an egg salad on Dutch crunch, but I must be very confident indeed.
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Alaska itself is an unusual state.
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The market is so competitive. There are so many products that are similar. So we are forced to invest in innovative research in new products that are one or two years ahead of the market.
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We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
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So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party.
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I don't feel like I have to dress up to go to the deli.
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But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.
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Sometimes I think I am still that 5-year-old girl playing with her dogs in the yard. That's how I see myself.
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Goals help you overcome short-term problems.
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Aristocracy is always cruel.
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To speak of oneself means to lay bare one's own soul, expose it like a body to the sun. To lay bare one's own soul is not at all like taking off one's brassiere on a crowded beach!
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There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.
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The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.
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The crusade is never off my mind - the exercise I do, the food I eat, the thought I think - all this and how I can help make my profession better-respected. To me, this one thing - physical culture and nutrition - is the salvation of America.
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There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
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I had the feeling that there was a dimension of reality that had not been dealt with in art: the dimension of ugliness.
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It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
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During one of my annual visits to the great Fred Winter's yard I said to him, 'Good God, Fred, your horses look magnificent. Beautifully fit.' Of course they do, you twit,' he said. 'They don't sit up all night drinking gin and tonic and playing cards.'
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When we were attacked on Sept. 11, we knew the main reason for the attack was that Islamists hated our way of life, our virtues, our freedoms. What we never imagined was that the free press - an institution at the heart of those virtues and freedoms - would be among the first to surrender.
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I've never been one for sitting on beaches.
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I've had the time to go through all the life phases with my parents, from being a bratty teenager, pushing them away, to saying later on, 'Oh my God, I can't believe what you did for me - thank you. I love you so much.'
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My understanding is, the fans are so ravenous in Canada, they gnaw on the stars.
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I won't let anybody get away with anything just because he is little.
