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Rachel Field: The public is...

Rachel Field: The public is...

The public is more easily swayed by persons than by principles.

Source: All This &...

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Elizabeth Dole: My objective as...

Elizabeth Dole: My objective as...

My objective as Secretary of Labor is to look through the 'glass ceiling' to see who is on the other side, and to...

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Ann Richards: I believe in...

Ann Richards: I believe in...

I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you...

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Isak Dinesen: God made the...

Isak Dinesen: God made the...

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

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Mary Roberts Rinehart: Life is a...

Mary Roberts Rinehart: Life is a...

Life is a little work, a little sleep, a little love and it is all over.

Source: In...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Children use the...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Children use the...

Children use the fist
Until they are of the age to use the brain.


Source: In...

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Diana Ross: I really, deeply...

Diana Ross: I really, deeply...

I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their...

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Ann (and Jane) Taylor: Though man a...

Ann (and Jane) Taylor: Though man a...

Though man a thinking being is defined,
Few use the grand prerogative of mind.
How few think justly of the...

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Anne Sexton: The beautiful feeling...

Anne Sexton: The beautiful feeling...

The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a...

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Eliza Cook: I love it,...

Eliza Cook: I love it,...

I love it, I love it; and who shall dare
To chide me for loving that old arm-chair?


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Emily Dickinson: A Wounded deer...

Emily Dickinson: A Wounded deer...

A Wounded deer - leaps highest.

Source: 1860; Poems, First Series, 1890.
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Katharine Hepburn: It's life isn't...

Katharine Hepburn: It's life isn't...

It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them....

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Zsa Zsa Gabor: A man in...

Zsa Zsa Gabor: A man in...

A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished.

Source: In...

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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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Maria Schell: I like Americans....

Maria Schell: I like Americans....

I like Americans. They always make an effort when they meet you. They want to be liked and to like you; it is always...

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Maggie Smith: Little girls, I...

Maggie Smith: Little girls, I...

Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the cr?me de la...

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Ilka Chase: You can always...

Ilka Chase: You can always...

You can always spot a well-informed man -- his views are the same as yours.

Source:...

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Amie Comeaux: One step from...

Amie Comeaux: One step from...

One step from a heartache
Two steps from the blues
So close to a teardrop
I know what you were gonna...

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Diane Arbus: Love involves a...

Diane Arbus: Love involves a...

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

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Louise Nevelson: True strength is...

Louise Nevelson: True strength is...

True strength is delicate.

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

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