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Jeane Kirkpatrick: History is a...

Jeane Kirkpatrick: History is a...

History is a better guide than good intentions.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: The one thing...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: The one thing...

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

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Ava Gardner: After my screen...

Ava Gardner: After my screen...

After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled, She can't talk! She can't act! She's...

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Patricia Neal: [Hollywood] always sounds...

Patricia Neal: [Hollywood] always sounds...

[Hollywood] always sounds glamorous when you're young.

Source: In TIme, 20 Mar...

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Joan Collins: Loneliness is the...

Joan Collins: Loneliness is the...

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Emily Dickinson: A word is...

Emily Dickinson: A word is...

A word is dead when it is said, some say.
I say it just begins to live that day.


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Tallulah Bankhead: It's one of...

Tallulah Bankhead: It's one of...

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theater that only one man in it can count on steady work -- the night...

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Carol Burnett: I have always...

Carol Burnett: I have always...

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really...

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Gilda Radner: It's such an...

Gilda Radner: It's such an...

It's such an act of optimism to get through a day and enjoy it and laugh and do all that without thinking about death....

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Maya Ying Lin: Architecture is like...

Maya Ying Lin: Architecture is like...

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we...

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Barbara Hepworth: I must always...

Barbara Hepworth: I must always...

I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to...

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Louise Nevelson: You must create...

Louise Nevelson: You must create...

You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world.

Source: In Words of...

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Mary Kay Ash: Criticize the act,...

Mary Kay Ash: Criticize the act,...

Criticize the act, not the person.

Source:
-- Mary Kay Ash, (May 12 1915-2001),...

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Est?e Lauder: Touch a face....

Est?e Lauder: Touch a face....

Touch a face. Touch a hand. Say, This is for you, this is what I want you, to wear.

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Susan RoAne: Respect for people...

Susan RoAne: Respect for people...

Respect for people is the cornerstone of communication and networking in the nineties.

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Hannah Arendt: Only the mob...

Hannah Arendt: Only the mob...

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by...

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Paule Marshall: Sometimes a person...

Paule Marshall: Sometimes a person...

Sometimes a person has to go back, really back -- to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them --...

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Nothing contributes so...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Nothing contributes so...

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

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Ariel Durant: One of the...

Ariel Durant: One of the...

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to...

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Toni Morrison: We die. That...

Toni Morrison: We die. That...

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our...

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