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Rita Rudner: Someday I want...

Rita Rudner: Someday I want...

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to...

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Jane Wagner: I personally think...

Jane Wagner: I personally think...

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

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Zora Neale Hurston: There is nothing...

Zora Neale Hurston: There is nothing...

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

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Zora Neale Hurston: No matter how...

Zora Neale Hurston: No matter how...

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

Source: In...

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Zora Neale Hurston: When a man...

Zora Neale Hurston: When a man...

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.

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Harriet Monroe: Great ages of...

Harriet Monroe: Great ages of...

Great ages of art come only when a widespread creative impulse meets an equally widespread impulse of sympathy . ....

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Charlotte Bronte: The writer who...

Charlotte Bronte: The writer who...

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master- something that at time...

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Christina Rossetti: So now in...

Christina Rossetti: So now in...

So now in patience I possess
My soul year after tedious year,
Content to take the lowest place
The place...

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Adelaide A Proctor: Seated one day...

Adelaide A Proctor: Seated one day...

Seated one day at the organ,
I was weary and ill at ease,
And my fingers wandered idly
Over the noisy...

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Amy Lowell: A man must...

Amy Lowell: A man must...

A man must be sacrificed now and again
To provide for the next generation of men.


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Nelly Sachs: When sleep leaves...

Nelly Sachs: When sleep leaves...

When sleep leaves the body like smoke and man, sated with secrets, drives the overworked nag of quarrel out of its...

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Marianne Moore: A writer is...

Marianne Moore: A writer is...

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

Source:...

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Pearl Bailey: Everybody wants to...

Pearl Bailey: Everybody wants to...

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.

Source: In...

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Pearl Bailey: We look into...

Pearl Bailey: We look into...

We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us -- not our effects on...

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Barbara Bush: Believe in something...

Barbara Bush: Believe in something...

Believe in something larger than yourself.

Source: Speech, 1990.
-- Barbara...

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Pat Nixon: I have sacrificed...

Pat Nixon: I have sacrificed...

I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious in order to advance the political career of my...

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Helen Hayes: An actress always...

Helen Hayes: An actress always...

An actress always knows when she's hit it and mostly you haven't; but once or twice I think I hit it right, so maybe...

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Debra Winger: I don't believe...

Debra Winger: I don't believe...

I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for...

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Jean Harlow: HARLOW: I was...

Jean Harlow: HARLOW: I was...

HARLOW: I was reading a book the other day . . . the guy said machinery is going to take the place of every...

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Jean Harlow: Would you be...

Jean Harlow: Would you be...

Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable?

Source: In Hell's...

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