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Karen Carpenter: Our first single,...

Karen Carpenter: Our first single,...

Our first single, 'Ticket To Ride', was a kind of half-hit, half flop: in some places it was number one, in others it...

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Janis Joplin: Don't compromise yourself....

Janis Joplin: Don't compromise yourself....

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Source: In Reader's Digest,...

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Billie Holiday: No two people...

Billie Holiday: No two people...

No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

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Madonna: I wouldn't have...

Madonna: I wouldn't have...

I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel...

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Fanny Brice: I never liked...

Fanny Brice: I never liked...

I never liked the men I loved, and never loved the men I liked.

Source: In The...

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Oprah Winfrey: It isn't until...

Oprah Winfrey: It isn't until...

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are -- not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep...

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Shelley Winters: I did a...

Shelley Winters: I did a...

I did a picture in England one winter and it was so cold I almost got married.

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Whoopi Goldberg: [S]omehow we are...

Whoopi Goldberg: [S]omehow we are...

[S]omehow we are supposed to be credits to our race. The mere fact that I'm still around makes me a credit to my race,...

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Liv Ullmann: I am learning...

Liv Ullmann: I am learning...

I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my...

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Emily Dickinson: Where thou art,...

Emily Dickinson: Where thou art,...

Where thou art, that is home.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Amy Lowell: Hate is ravening...

Amy Lowell: Hate is ravening...

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

Source: In The...

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Lucille Clifton: Poetry is a...

Lucille Clifton: Poetry is a...

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

Source: In Listen to...

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Maxine Kumin: Cherish your wilderness....

Maxine Kumin: Cherish your wilderness....

Cherish your wilderness.

Source: You Are in Bear Country, The Long Approach,...

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Paula Gunn Allen: An odd thing...

Paula Gunn Allen: An odd thing...

An odd thing occurs in the minds of Americans when Indian civilization in mentioned: little or...

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Muriel Rukeyser: The universe is...

Muriel Rukeyser: The universe is...

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Source: The Speed of Darkness.
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Gloria Swanson: When I die,...

Gloria Swanson: When I die,...

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private...

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Lillian Hellman: Success isn't everything...

Lillian Hellman: Success isn't everything...

Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.

Source: Julian, in Toys...

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Edith Sitwell: My poems are...

Edith Sitwell: My poems are...

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

Source: Collected Poems.
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Edith Sitwell: I am patient...

Edith Sitwell: I am patient...

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Source: In...

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Sarah Siddons: The awful consciousness...

Sarah Siddons: The awful consciousness...

The awful consciousness that one is the sole object of attention to that immense space . . . and on all sides round,...

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