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Lady Bird Johnson: Walk away from...

Lady Bird Johnson: Walk away from...

Walk away from it until you're stronger. All your problems will be there when you get back, but you'll be better able...

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Lauren Bacall: You can't start...

Lauren Bacall: You can't start...

You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening...

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Whoopi Goldberg: I don't like...

Whoopi Goldberg: I don't like...

I don't like driving very much. That makes me very unhappy, because I scream a lot in the car, but other than that,...

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Whoopi Goldberg: When you are...

Whoopi Goldberg: When you are...

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like...

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Gilda Radner: I think dogs...

Gilda Radner: I think dogs...

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being...

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Judy Garland: In the silence...

Judy Garland: In the silence...

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of...

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Virginia Graham: Good shot, bad...

Virginia Graham: Good shot, bad...

Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be...

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Yoko Ono: I saw that...

Yoko Ono: I saw that...

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose...

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Yoko Ono: All my concerts...

Yoko Ono: All my concerts...

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their...

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Judy Collins: I don't think...

Judy Collins: I don't think...

I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the...

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Joan Baez: Nonviolence is a...

Joan Baez: Nonviolence is a...

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

Source: Daybreak
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Midge Decter: We proclaimed you...

Midge Decter: We proclaimed you...

We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is...

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Phyllis George: Life is what...

Phyllis George: Life is what...

Life is what you make it: If you snooze, you lose; and if you snore, you lose more.

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Simone de Beauvoir: I tore myself...

Simone de Beauvoir: I tore myself...

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded...

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Brenda Ueland: These people who...

Brenda Ueland: These people who...

These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato...

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Miriam Beard: One must learn,...

Miriam Beard: One must learn,...

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate...

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Elizabeth Janeway: I admire people...

Elizabeth Janeway: I admire people...

I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. . . . They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and...

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Helen Rowland: Some women can...

Helen Rowland: Some women can...

Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be...

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Julie Burchill: It has been...

Julie Burchill: It has been...

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: Satiety is a...

Minna Thomas Antrim: Satiety is a...

Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

Source: Naked Truth &...

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