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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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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Americans should never believe, even incorrectly, that one's criminal activity will go unpunished simply because it was committed on behalf of a corporation.
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There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.
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I'm happy because - I'm not doing anything deceitful, I think, to my family. I'm successful because I don't have to sleep with one of my friends' girlfriends or wife or something. That's why I'm successful, that's success to me. I'm not dead, I'm not in the gutter - that's success to me.
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You put your trust in the church. You put your trust in the pastors. You don't expect things to be swept under the carpet or hidden.
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You can really get into it - especially in the movies, where you really have the time to get into your character and play her well.
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Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.
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I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.
