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Joan Collins

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JEFF TWEEDY It's the easiest way for them to get your money.
LINDA GOLODNER Being the songwriter that I am, the easiest way to translate what you're doing for people is to give...
FRED LEBLANC The easiest way to steal something, is for it to be given willingly.
MARISSA MEYER I always liked the city - the culture; there is always something to do, ... And the kids ... they re...
JEFF DUNCAN In the years when teenagers really need to be connected to somebody, they aren't; especially in ...
DASH MIHOK The easiest way to get someone to love you, is love them first.
JIM GENOVESE Maybe the easiest way to get the message to them is to tell the media that Brian would sure prefer t...
BRIAN BILBRAY Banning something is the easiest way to make it desirable.
TAPAN GHOSH The Best Way To Get Someone Else To Accept Your Idea Is To Convince Them That They Played An Importa...
DONALD LYNN FROST The best way to control slaves is to convince them they are free.
SEAN KEVIN SWEENEY We just need to get more kids out for next year. They don't need to know how to bowl - we'll teach t...
LYNN KOCHER One thing I think kids need to do is more chores, and take care of their own rooms. Responsibilities...
FAITH FORD I think it is really neat because it shows that kids really do want to be involved and that they nee...
DOUG FRAME The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK One thing I've learned about people is that the easiest way to get them to like you is to shut up an...
JESSE ANDREWS i dont like when people say you know when they are in the middle of telling you something to me it g...
DALLY SALAD Don't lie to yourself?
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS Hey, techer leave those kids alone!.....We dont need no education......we dont need no thought contr...
PINK FLOYD It's the easiest and fastest way to get rid of my garbage.
LOIS BROBST To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... If you know something is true, you don’t need to convince anyone of it. If you are trying to convi...
ALAN COHEN To the unwashed public, Joan Collins is a star. But to those who know her, she's a commodity who wou...
ANTHONY NEWLEY I've noticed with my own kids that the ability for them to get up in the morning is progressively de...
DEBRA ROBINSON I find that when people doubt or believe it won’t work or can’t be done, they really want me to ...
DR.'S RICK AND SUSANN CRAWFORD Convince people that you need them, and watch what they do.
WAYNE GERARD TROTMAN We've got a good opportunity here to give our kids something they really need.
DANNY LAMBETH My thing is trying to convince them they can win, ... Anything that happens that's good, they think,...
DICK BUTKUS My thing is trying to convince them they can win, ... Anything that happens that's good, they think,...
DICK BUTKUS We want to create channels of communication so that the kids feel comfortable talking about personal...
JOE KELLY They need to look at taking some power away from these engines. The easiest way to do that is by dec...
DOUG YATES We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid...
KURT VONNEGUT We really have to be salesmen, and we really have to convince them that this is important and you re...
PETER HEBERTSON This is a big deal for the authority. It opens the door for them to get moving on the $120 million e...
JOHN ZIMMERMAN Dedicated is the right word for my group of runners. I feel the reason kids compete in cross country...
VINCE MORRIS It is the easiest way to get a good profile of who your customers are.
DAVID BAMBERGER For me it was this idea that there was something really important to be gained just by hanging out w...
REBECCA JAFFE The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.
UNKNOWN The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time.
LORENE SCAFARIA These kids need a breakthrough. They are ready. We just need to help them get one. I think it will o...
DAVID REEVES We still don't have a lot of experience on the mound. We're trying to get kids innings and try to co...
VANCE ARNOLD We need to listen to our kids and provide something that will engage them.
ALAN EDELMAN It's the kids. The kids wanted it. Usually you say that if you want something, go after it. Work for...
LOLA BAKER Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving the...
YOUSSOU N'DOUR In the same way that I cannot be perfect and need grace for my mistakes, I also need to give my kids...
BENJAMIN WATSON Tonight the kids remembered that we'd lost to them 6-1 at the start of the year and I think it motiv...
COREY LESSARD If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ Those of us who did it for a while probably appreciate it most, because we know how hard it is. They...
BILL CURRY All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD How to get it, I annoy you???
You are not interested???

What's the idea???
DEYTH BANGER There was something they weren't telling me, that Meridian didn't want to co-op, or our administrati...
ROBERT NEWELL The research that goes into the projects these kids do is phenomenal. It's a good way to get them pr...
ANGILA GOLIK Those kids behind them have got to understand that they need to maintain that level. Because if they...
BRENT PEASE It's not the easiest thing in the world to get. We really look at the requests and it needs to be ex...
LANCE BERG We want to give some promising players some opportunities and start to formulate some strategies for...
BRUCE ARENA The way to make a difference in others life is to say only what they can’t; but to make it really ...
ANUJ SOMANY The trouble with psychics is that they convince you that you get this future no matter what you do. ...
THOMM QUACKENBUSH We have to do something to convince our senators that we need a good immigration reform.
CARLOS AVILA Teaching and writing, to me, is really just seduction; you go to where people are and you find somet...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS Education is a key reason a lot of these families came to America -- they want something better for ...
KATHY FREUDENBERG The way we did it was really through trench warfare and really hard work. It wasn't easy, and we had...
BILL WYATT Everyone of them is staying, ... They dont want to go back. They have told me that.
AMY COLLINS People are really hungry for change, and we need to give them something to hang that change on. The ...
MARK MCKINNON The easiest way to teach children the value of money is to borrow some from them
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's he...
NEIL GAIMAN Education is our passion. We wanted to find a program that helps kids get excited about college and ...
CAROL STENSRUD We figured they will need to get something for their husband and sons after they get something for t...
JASON SNYDER 'Harry Potter' opened so many doors for young adult literature. It really did convince the p...
RICK RIORDAN Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL It was really something that we wanted to get started for the public library -- we want to have a ch...
GENA PROCHASKA Too easy to get = Just as easy to forget.
MANDY HALE When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone ...
KAITLYN DEVER I think it's awesome for the kids. They worked really hard to get here. I'm just happy for them. We ...
JODY BASS I'm excited about it. The whole idea was for kids to be able to do a project that would count as the...
DEBBIE WARD But the room for maneuver for both leaderships is bigger than what they really think, and I think on...
YOSSI BEILIN The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO I get cyber-bullied all of the time. Everybody has something negative to say. It is so hurtful. So I...
SAMMI HANRATTY I talk to them the way I talk to them. Missy talks the way she talks to them. The way Sam talks ? 'Y...
KEITH JONES These kids really need someone else, a mentor, to do things with, to get them out, away from the eve...
JANET TRINKAUS I have never turned away a child because they couldn't pay. That doesn't mean I teach them for free,...
DON MADDEN The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL This will be a fun way to get the kids involved. It's a way for them to learn about their heritage a...
JEFF GUIN Sometimes you see kids addressing issues, whether it be suicide, or drugs affecting them or their fa...
ROBERT NORTON I still think our best ballgame is ahead of us. But I can't convince them of that. They have to conv...
MATT CREAMER Their speed makes them one of the faster teams in the country. They like to get up and down the ice....
DEREK DAMON Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to ...
BOB GELDOF How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
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JOAN COLLINS Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much
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JOAN SMALLS A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it fro...
JOAN DIDION I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
JOAN MIRO I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.
JOAN RIVERS Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be.
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JOAN HICKSON Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualiti...
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JOAN BAEZ Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it.
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JOAN RIVERS A heart filled with anger has no room for love.
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JOAN BAEZ All serious daring starts from within.
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JOAN DIDION A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the u...
JOAN DIDION The Universe knows itself and expands itself through me.
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JOAN BAEZ Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
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JOAN DIDION If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
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JOAN LUNDEN To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.
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JOAN SMALLS A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.
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JOAN RIVERS My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.
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JOAN RIVERS The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it.
JOAN RIVERS Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.
JOAN DIDION Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
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JOAN LINGARD You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.
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JOAN BAUER I think that in our society we should do everything to encourage child-bearing and family-making. An...
JOAN LUNDEN We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to ...
JOAN BLADES What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.
JOAN MIRó Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.
JOAN RIVERS Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only questio...
JOAN DIDION So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes t...
JOAN JETT I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the b...
JOAN CUSACK I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which ha...
JOAN MIRO I'm grateful for every day I'm still alive. Everything is still working. I attribute it to e...
JOAN RIVERS Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the b...
JOAN HALIFAX Mum has always been a huge anti-war activist. She would go off to protest and get arrested. I have h...
JOAN CUSACK I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find ...
JOAN DIDION My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, an...
JOAN DIDION I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
JOAN RIVERS Comedy is a very rough beat. It's no holds barred, as it should be.
JOAN RIVERS