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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting


Edith Wharton

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THEODORE WHITE EVERYONE WANTS SOMEONE WHO LOVES THEM, BUT I WANT SOMEONE WHO SHOULD LOVE WHAT I DO.
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DALLY SALAD A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone w...
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GIANLUIGI BUFFON Why should I worry about who I was yesterday?! If I know who I am today!...
PHILIP T. M. I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
YOSSI SARID I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.
HARMONY KORINE War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
CHARLES EVANS HUGHES When I'm nervous, I know I care about something - you should be nervous about things that you wa...
ELLEN WONG I dont care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.
JOSH BILLINGS I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
MARTHA GELLHORN The short and long of it is I don't believe the music should be about the person who made it. You sh...
J. LOREN WINCE Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.
AVRIL LAVIGNE I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mi...
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HUGH PENNINGTON If I look at someone like Sinatra, who toured until he was 80 and made 60 movies, that would be a gr...
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AMANDA BYNES I was just relaxing because the top athletes who should have made the race faster were not there.
AUGUSTINE CHOGE The greatest comedies that were made by anybody were made in two reels; I don't care who it was.
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IF I WAKE I’d scream, but I have no voice. The bullies stole it from me
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IF I WAKE Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values.... God made life simple. It is man...
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MICHAEL DIRDA I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER I think someone else told him, ... He didn't even know who I was. It made me feel a little proud. I ...
ERYKAH BADU For all I know, he's a very nice guy who made a very stupid decision .
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JEAN ALESI I think everyone should be with who they love.
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LINDSAY LOHAN I been thinken'. when life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade!! get mad! I dont want your damn le...
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AARON HOLBERT It's starting to take over in leaps and bounds. I get calls all the time from citizens who want to k...
JEAN KVIDERA I knew a very wise man that believed that . . . if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...
ANDREW FLETCHER OF SALTOUN (2) I've had statements made - 'Who in the heck wants to hear a 60-year-old singer?' That st...
JIMMY SCOTT We want to do something for someone who has taken care of others her whole life.
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ANDREW FLETCHER I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or...
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JODIE FOSTER They made me realize anything that is worth having may require me to fail numerous times in order to...
CHARLENA JACKSON I had the feeling deep in my gut that there'd been lines I should have spoken, gestures I should hav...
MEGAN CREWE If you want to know who I am, learn how I live my life.
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NICOLE WILLIAMS If I where to describe myself in one word, a new word should be made.
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CHRISTINA ENGELA That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
THOMAS CARLYLE I'm not a self-made man. I cannot forget those who have sacrificed for me to get where I am today.
JESSIE HILL I should have made better adjustments than I did.
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JOHN AIMERS I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy shou...
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NICHOLAS HASLAM I may seem secure. I could have it made . . .
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VERONICA ROTH I made that sign. Maybe I should send him one.
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DAVID PIETRUSZA Of course I work hard. Why shouldn't I? Who am I to think I should get things the easy way?
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BEN KINGSLEY A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
IRIS MURDOCH A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
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EDITH SITWELL I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am...
EDITH SITWELL I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
EDITH SITWELL I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
EDITH SITWELL Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred a...
EDITH SITWELL A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
EDITH SITWELL People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looki...
EDITH SCHAEFFER The farm women are extremely well organized and are bound to be heard from.
EDITH ROGERS I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinki...
EDITH ROGERS But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should conf...
EDITH ROGERS The market town of Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire, was a popular 19th - century English spa. Its min...
EDITH PEARLMAN I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition b...
EDITH PEARLMAN I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be...
EDITH PEARLMAN I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity ...
EDITH PEARLMAN There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifyin...
EDITH PEARLMAN I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.
EDITH PEARLMAN Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobilit...
EDITH PEARLMAN In the late 1950s, self-esteem hadn't yet been invented. High schools saw their sole mission as ...
EDITH PEARLMAN The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and pr...
EDITH PEARLMAN I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devo...
EDITH PEARLMAN I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you'...
EDITH PEARLMAN