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night and day, to make you like everyb... E. E. CUMMINGS he sang his didn't he danced his did E. E. CUMMINGS If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses... E. E. CUMMINGS and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm E. E. CUMMINGS If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsess... E. E. CUMMINGS Bless the flowers and the weeds, my birds and bees E. E. CUMMINGS "maggie and millie and molly and may" maggie and millie and molly and may went down to ... E. E. CUMMINGS Why do you paint? For exactly the same reason I breathe. Thats not an answer. There is... E. E. CUMMINGS The general who is able to persuade his forces that there is victory, even where there seems to be d... H. E. E. HAYES In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my ch... JENNIFER LEE As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was... JENNIFER GRANHOLM Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discoverin... JENNIFER ANISTON Social media reactions to celebrity death have taken on a predictable pattern: an outpouring of shoc... JENNIFER ARMINTROUT You know, I've got wrinkles on my forehead and smile lines, but what's wrong with that? I lo... JENNIFER ANISTON Don't rely on men but don't shun them either. JENNIFER ANISTON There is nothing you can control about love. JENNIFER ANISTON I am trying to think of the last time that I just said, 'What the hell!' and did something c... JENNIFER ANISTON Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want. JENNIFER ANISTON I realised it was only me who was stopping myself from living my life. JENNIFER ANISTON I want to see friends more and travel more. JENNIFER ANISTON Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do. JENNIFER ANISTON When somebody follows you 20 blocks to the pharmacy, where they watch you buy toilet paper, you know... JENNIFER ANISTON You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a 'godd... JENNIFER ANISTON Free love never works. JENNIFER ANISTON It gets so boring you know just to do the same thing over and over again. JENNIFER ANISTON I spent my first paycheck on a vintage Mercedes. JENNIFER ANISTON Oh, it's not really gambling when you never lose. JENNIFER ANISTON The fun stuff comes when someone is not so strict on sticking to the script. You're allowed the ... JENNIFER ANISTON Life can be dramatic and funny all in the same day. JENNIFER ANISTON I always say don't make plans, make options. JENNIFER ANISTON Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurt... JENNIFER CAPRIATI When one neighbor helps another, we strengthen our communities. JENNIFER PAHLKA The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it. JENNIFER LAWRENCE Few men in their 70s looked as good as my father did. What was his secret? Genes, maybe, since he di... JENNIFER GRANT In life, there are those relationships where you really love someone, but they're just not right... JENNIFER MORRISON Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing. JENNIFER ARMENTROUT I've, we have in this state, like many other states, we're experiencing an enormous budget d... JENNIFER GRANHOLM I was born in Westchester, NY. I grew up around the Rye Brook area, and then I moved to White Plains... JENNIFER DAMIANO It's so easy to be boxed into one part and one part only. JENNIFER ANISTON There is no "I", there's only "we". Meaning all you can touch, and all that you see is a part of you... JENNIFER SODINI The alchemy of life is to turn coins into cents, by making sense of change. JENNIFER SODINI My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from colleg... JENNIFER GARNER My father and I are friends and my mother and I don't speak. It's a bummer. I miss her. JENNIFER ANISTON We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're f... JENNIFER PAHLKA I drink coconut water before my workouts. It has just the right amount of calories and electrolytes ... JENNIFER MORRISON Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was ex... JENNIFER CHIAVERINI I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle peopl... JENNIFER EGAN I wanted to have a go at a pop career. My first single, 'Baby I Don't Care', was a hit, ... JENNIFER ELLISON And when I'm on set, I'm just thinking about the script and of working. I think I've sta... JENNIFER LAWRENCE When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an imp... JENNIFER GRANHOLM