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Patricia Neal: Gort. Klaatu baraada...

Patricia Neal: Gort. Klaatu baraada...

Gort. Klaatu baraada nikto. (to the robot Gort)

Source: The Day the Earth Stood...

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Patricia Neal: When you call...

Patricia Neal: When you call...

When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a...

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Gail Parent: Actually, I have...

Gail Parent: Actually, I have...

Actually, I have only two things to worry about now: afterlife and reincarnation.

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Sophie Tucker: Gradually, at the...

Sophie Tucker: Gradually, at the...

Gradually, at the concerts, I began to hear calls for 'the fat girl' . . . . Then I would jump up for the piano stool,...

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Pearl Bailey: I see their...

Pearl Bailey: I see their...

I see their souls, and I hold them in my hands, and because I love them they weigh nothing. [on...

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Erma Bombeck: Seize the moment....

Erma Bombeck: Seize the moment....

Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert...

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Dorothy Dix: I have learned...

Dorothy Dix: I have learned...

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of...

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Margaret Fuller: It is not...

Margaret Fuller: It is not...

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made...

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Charlotte Bunch: Feminism is an...

Charlotte Bunch: Feminism is an...

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

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Fanny Burney: Travelling is the...

Fanny Burney: Travelling is the...

Travelling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building here after seeing...

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Catherine Drinker Bowen: For your born...

Catherine Drinker Bowen: For your born...

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right...

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Mary Wilson Little: In some parts...

Mary Wilson Little: In some parts...

In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no...

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Elizabeth Janeway: If one is...

Elizabeth Janeway: If one is...

If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world.

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Laura Ingalls Wilder: All those golden...

Laura Ingalls Wilder: All those golden...

All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: If you surrender...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: If you surrender...

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those...

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Julia Ward Howe: Disarm, disarm. The...

Julia Ward Howe: Disarm, disarm. The...

Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence...

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Helen Keller: Keep your face...

Helen Keller: Keep your face...

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

Source: In The...

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Martha Beck: Any transition serious...

Martha Beck: Any transition serious...

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of...

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Linda Ellerbee: How is it...

Linda Ellerbee: How is it...

How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew,...

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Ada Louise Huxtable: A disaster where...

Ada Louise Huxtable: A disaster where...

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

Source: On...

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