Claire Forlani Quotes
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I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
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For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.
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I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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All of my high school issues are resolved!
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
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Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
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I think tripe is maligned. It's wonderful stuff, but everyone goes 'urgh.' You have to wash and then cook it, very gently braise it, for eight hours. It uplifts you but steadies you at the same time.
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Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is based on me when I was a little girl. The fact is, though, that Junie B. and I have very little in common.
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As president, I would promote a Fair and Flat Tax plan, known as the 'EZ Tax.' My tax plan would be the largest tax cut in American history, reforming individual, business, and worker taxes.
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Well, first, if I am fortunate enough to be elected to the U.S. Senate, it won't be a party that will have elected me. It will be the people of California.
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The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment's greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic.
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I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
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'Don Quijote' by Cervantes. I read the original Spanish version when I was in high school. Such a classic!
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I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.
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I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.
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Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable expectations and eventual disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around the room with royal-blue chickens.
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You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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No leader, however great a personality he may be, is as important to a people as their own intellectual development.
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It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics.
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My accent depends on whom I'm around.
