Quotes 341 till 360 of 586.
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My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.
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My mum was a wonderful mother. She died, aged 80, of Alzheimer's disease, which was dreadful to watch. I remember she said to me: 'Believe in yourself because no one else is going to do it for you.' I'm sure a lot of my success is due to her words of advice.
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My parents always said that I would be a lawyer or pilot or doctor - and I always just thought that's what I would do.
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My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.
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My skirt fell off on stage during a performance of Hairspray on Broadway, revealing my fat suit over my own natural fat suit. I turned to the audience and said, 'Now you know why I spent six years in a square.'
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My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it.
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My whole life, they said, 'Do not act. You need to get a college degree'.
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My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.
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My wife speaks very good French. She said she would miss lots of things in the U.S., but we can't live there if Trump's president.
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Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
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Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. Man's true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.
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No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, “This is what is expected of you. But… I’m lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role… I love being with people.”
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Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too, at his friend, can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.
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Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.
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Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
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Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, during the middle of the nineteenth century, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas even more than men, and Thoreau loved himself.
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