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Shelley Long: If brains were...

Shelley Long: If brains were...

If brains were money, you'd need to take out a loan to buy a cup of coffee.

Source:...

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Michelle Pfeiffer: When you're young...

Michelle Pfeiffer: When you're young...

When you're young and have a dream, it's pretty simplistic. You don't think about or have any way of knowing...

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Dorothy Gish: Do you know...

Dorothy Gish: Do you know...

Do you know New York stifles me? It makes me so unhappy. There are so many things I want, and so many things I...

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Kim Cattrall: I think the...

Kim Cattrall: I think the...

I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a...

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Joan Collins: The easiest way...

Joan Collins: The easiest way...

The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something is to get it for...

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Helen Keller: Never bend your...

Helen Keller: Never bend your...

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

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Peg Bracken: When there's a...

Peg Bracken: When there's a...

When there's a lot of it around, you never want it very much.

Source: The I Hate to...

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Marie de Sevigne: The desire to...

Marie de Sevigne: The desire to...

The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many...

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Anne Frank: Whoever is happy...

Anne Frank: Whoever is happy...

Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl,...

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Jean Kerr: The average, healthy,...

Jean Kerr: The average, healthy,...

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain...

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Jean Kerr: I make mistakes;...

Jean Kerr: I make mistakes;...

I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.

Source: The Snake Has All the...

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Janet Flanner: She was built...

Janet Flanner: She was built...

She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.

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Erma Bombeck: Humor is a...

Erma Bombeck: Humor is a...

Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, it's unplanned, it's full of...

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Clementine Paddleford: Beer is the...

Clementine Paddleford: Beer is the...

Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.

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Eileen Caddy: When you feel...

Eileen Caddy: When you feel...

When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of...

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Midge Decter: Women's Liberation calls...

Midge Decter: Women's Liberation calls...

Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the sexual revolution is that it has made of sex an...

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Fanny Burney: . . ....

Fanny Burney: . . ....

. . . men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense.

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Suzanne Curchod Necker: Too many wish...

Suzanne Curchod Necker: Too many wish...

Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Mary Wilson Little: There is no...

Mary Wilson Little: There is no...

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing...

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Gretel Ehrlich: Leaves are verbs...

Gretel Ehrlich: Leaves are verbs...

Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.

Source: The Solace of Open Spaces,...

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