Sam Sheppard Quotes
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Anonymity breeds meanness.
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I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?
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Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
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Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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Everything I did is because I wanted to do it. If I weren't playing this arena, if I were playing a club, I'd still be doing it because that's what I want to do. I love playing the guitar.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.
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When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some terrible catastrophe has occurred the night before, it is pretty much up to you. Tomorrow morning, when the sun shines through your window, choose to make it a happy day.
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I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.
