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Sarah Caldwell: Success is important...

Sarah Caldwell: Success is important...

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Light tomorrow with...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Light tomorrow with...

Light tomorrow with today.

Source: From Kevin Harris' Quotation Collections found...

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Tallulah Bankhead: Acting is a...

Tallulah Bankhead: Acting is a...

Acting is a form of confusion.

Source: Tallulah. 1952.
-- Tallulah Bankhead,...

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Ingrid Bergman: Happiness is good...

Ingrid Bergman: Happiness is good...

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold, by Abby...

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Oprah Winfrey: The more you...

Oprah Winfrey: The more you...

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

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Catherine the Great: Your wits make...

Catherine the Great: Your wits make...

Your wits make others witty.

Source: Letter to Voltaire, In The Complete Works of...

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Abigail Adams: If particular care...

Abigail Adams: If particular care...

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold...

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Beatrice Lillie: The vows one...

Beatrice Lillie: The vows one...

The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert...

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Britney Spears: I think I've...

Britney Spears: I think I've...

I think I've always had these songs that I've been writing in my head. Now I feel ready to let people start to hear...

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Emily Dickinson: Because I could...

Emily Dickinson: Because I could...

Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And...

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Julia Child: I was 32...

Julia Child: I was 32...

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

Source: Particular...

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Carry Nation: If you don't...

Carry Nation: If you don't...

If you don't do it, then the women of this state will do it . . . You refused me the vote and I had to use a...

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Olympia Brown: How natural that...

Olympia Brown: How natural that...

How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which...

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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Nothing contributes so...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Nothing contributes so...

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its...

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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Every political good...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Every political good...

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Source: The...

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Althea Gibson: In sports, you...

Althea Gibson: In sports, you...

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it...

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Billie Jean King: The trouble with...

Billie Jean King: The trouble with...

The trouble with being number one in the world - in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that...

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Florence Griffith Joyner: When anyone tells...

Florence Griffith Joyner: When anyone tells...

When anyone tells me I can't do anything. I'm just not listening any more.

Source:...

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Ann Landers: Nobody ever drowned...

Ann Landers: Nobody ever drowned...

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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Charleszetta Waddles: You don't have...

Charleszetta Waddles: You don't have...

You don't have to look poor, you know, you don't have to look down. For money is a medium of exchange, and that's all;...

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