Lady Randolph Churchill Quotes
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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By 9:30 at night, I go to bed.
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I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away.
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Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.
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I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.
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For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
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NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.
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I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.
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I wanted to be a scientist, but I wanted to go into space. They are not mutually exclusive.
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I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.
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I'm pretty much a dinosaur in the studio. I like things hand-drawn, even today. The story artists use Cintiqs, but I'm the only person who hasn't completely converted to computers. I like the Cintiq, but there's something about the raw emotional power of using paper and pencil.
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Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.
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I don't use emojis. I go vintage.
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I always wanted it, the fame. When it come, I didn't want to let it go.
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Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.
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We can't accept that it's O.K. if only some kids get to go to college.
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In New York, ingenuity goes hand-in-hand with the hustle to survive.
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This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.
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As a Midlander and a big walker, I'd always loved ridge and furrow fields, the plough-marked land as it was when it was enclosed. It is the landscape giving you a story of lives that ended with the arrival of sheep.
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We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.
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If you're in the penaut business you learn to think small.
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We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
