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All Quotes Collection
"In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring."
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"The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name."
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"It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary."
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"It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse."
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"Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions."
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"I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked."
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"All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead."
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"A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me."
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"People want security in this insecure world."
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"I think that every single person should play sports."
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"I want to give as many Canadians the opportunity to be successful and if we can use their athletic gifts to get them a free degree or a free diploma across the border then I guess I'm doing my job."
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"That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati."
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"There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would undoubtedly support such a store, but whether their support would be sufficient, I am unable to say."
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"The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself."
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"Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use."
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"More than 100 people are involved in a transplant operation... and we can't waste time and resources if there is a chance the caretakers aren't up for an awesome responsibility."
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"Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade."
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"There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence."
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"Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art."
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"I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!"
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"Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters."
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"When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly."
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"Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood."
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