Wallace Stegner Quotes
If you're going to get old, you might as well get as old as you can get.
Wallace Stegner
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
Abbe Pierre
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
Wendell Phillips
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Could you imagine being from Siberia? Like, a small part of Russia, where it's like, 'When was the last time Russia was having a super big international pop star in the U.S.?' I don't know, but I can name a few from Sweden. I think that gives us a lot of confidence in being pop stars because we're like, 'Oh, we actually can. We know we can.'
Zara Larsson
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It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.
Abraham Lincoln
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The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
Fiona Apple
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Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.
Ines de La Fressange
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Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us and could pull it off at all.
Randal Kleiser
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Bill Cosby, you know, he's a delightful guy.
Barry Corbin
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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Oprah Winfrey
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
Dana Stabenow
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Italy's assets are her style, her beauty, her creativity, her passion, her energy, her technology; and these will be core brand values of all our cars. Fiat as a company has a long way to go and a steep road ahead.
Lapo Elkann
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What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.
Ian Jackson
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With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.
Kate Christensen
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I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.
J. Cole
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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
Victor Hugo
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The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.
Imre Kertesz
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God invented love, and it is therefore perfect, and dogs are better at celebrating this perfection than we are. When in doubt as to how we should feel, we could do far worse than trying to live life like the dogs.
W. Bruce Cameron
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If you're going to get old, you might as well get as old as you can get.
Wallace Stegner
