Kenny Rogers Quotes
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A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!
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I miss having my mom and close friends around. Thank God for Skype and Face-Time, which keep me connected... but interacting digitally can't come close to the feeling of being hugged by my mom or getting together for a meal with my friends on the same table.
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I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!
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All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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I became a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965 but did not complete my thesis until two years later at a graduate ceremony at which Carnegie Institute of Technology became Carnegie-Mellon University. At Northwestern, I was mentored by the 'three Bobs:' Robert Eisner, Robert Strotz and Robert Clower.
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I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.
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Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
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When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'
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When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.
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I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.
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A European army must protect the continent from two sides, from the east and from the south, in terms of protecting against terrorism and migration.
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Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship; you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.
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What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.
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What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.
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The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.'
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It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.
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You have some people that's weak, and you have some people that's strong. I consider myself a very strong person.
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I used to prefer rapping over singing, but now I'm a little 50/50 about it. I like doing both, a lot - equally.
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Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.
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I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow up and move past JK Rowling they can move to me. From Jo to Jodi!
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I'm much more comfortable singing than talking.
