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Margot Fonteyn: Minor things can...

Margot Fonteyn: Minor things can...

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

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-- Grace Hansen, (Jan 0 1913-1985), US dance director; 0

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Margaret Cho: Privacy and security...

Margaret Cho: Privacy and security...

Privacy and security are those things you give up when `you show the world what makes you...

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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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Paula Gunn Allen: Indians think it...

Paula Gunn Allen: Indians think it...

Indians think it is important to remember, while Americans believe it is important to...

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Mariah Carey: Music is what...

Mariah Carey: Music is what...

Music is what I love and it's what I feel and it's in me and to know that I can do something that I enjoy and...

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Cornelia Otis Skinner: One learns in...

Cornelia Otis Skinner: One learns in...

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

Source: In An...

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Joan Crawford: I never go...

Joan Crawford: I never go...

I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next...

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Raquel Welch: Change excites me....

Raquel Welch: Change excites me....

Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.

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Joyce Brothers: Accept that all...

Joyce Brothers: Accept that all...

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can -- and surely will at times -- fail. I think we should follow a...

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Joyce Brothers: Psychologically, having it...

Joyce Brothers: Psychologically, having it...

Psychologically, having it all is not a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are...

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Jane Austen: The little bit...

Jane Austen: The little bit...

The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much...

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Lillian Smith: Faith and doubt...

Lillian Smith: Faith and doubt...

Faith and doubt both are needed -- not as antagonists, but working side by side -- to take us around the unknown...

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Judith Guest: To have a...

Judith Guest: To have a...

To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to possess a guiding principle. A belief of some kind. A...

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Emmuska Orczy: We seek him...

Emmuska Orczy: We seek him...

We seek him here, we seek him there,
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
Is he in heaven? - Is he in...

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Rumer Godden: The motto was...

Rumer Godden: The motto was...

The motto was Pax, but the word was set in a circle of thorns.

Source: On a...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: You don't pay...

Lois McMaster Bujold: You don't pay...

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in...

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Pearl Buck: Life without idealism...

Pearl Buck: Life without idealism...

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just have hope or starve to death.

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Annie Dillard: Crystals grew inside...

Annie Dillard: Crystals grew inside...

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and...

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Gertrude Stein: A writer must...

Gertrude Stein: A writer must...

A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other...

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