Lady Bird Johnson Quotes

Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont to look like Vermont.

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• What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.

  

  Natasha Leggero
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  • World

• I've always respected and appreciated Punk, but we never really hung out. We came from the same route, but we didn't necessarily hang out in the same circles. I've always had a great appreciation and respect for his hard work.

  

  Daniel Bryan
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• When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

  

  Walter Lippmann
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  • Truth

• A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
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  • Death

• Obviously, you want to help the team win in any way possible. If that's scoring goals, great.

  

  Patrick Kane
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• The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.

  

  J. Paul Getty
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• I never thought I would become that person who loves working out. It sucks while you're doing it, but the second you finish, it's like, 'Wow, I feel great! I'm stronger and much more confident.'

  

  Zoey Deutch
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• It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

  

  Sam Shepard
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  • America

• Everywhere in my house are these little things that have meanings and make me think of great memories.

  

  Nate Berkus
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• I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
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• For me, doing a show is great, but I want women to be able to wear the clothes easily as well.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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• I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.

  

  Uwe Boll
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  • Friends

• In Denver, I was a homebody, and that's a life I'd chosen with great happiness. I wanted that break from the arc lights and focus on building a lovely home, have some fun, look after my kids and do things that I had missed out on while pursuing my dream.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
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• Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.

  

  Tariq Ali
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• Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
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• Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• When I was 11 years old, I was bullied. It mainly started when I moved to California to pursue my dreams of being an actress. Kids back home in Texas, who I thought were my friends, were saying things behind my back. They said that I would never make it because I wasn't talented or pretty enough to be on TV.

  

  Raini Rodriguez
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Friends

• I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.

  

  Bear Grylls
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  • Food
  • Cooking

• If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.

  

  Octavio Paz
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• Let me say before I go any further that I forgive nobody. I wish them all an atrocious life and then the fires and ice of hell and in the execrable generations to come an honoured name.

  

  Samuel Beckett
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  • Wish

• So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
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  • Country
  • Resources

• Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep- He hath awakened from the dream of life- 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance, strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
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  • Peace

• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.’ W. H. Murray, The Scottish Himalayan Expedition, 1951

  

  Mark Williams
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  • Magic

• Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont to look like Vermont.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
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