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"On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me."
John C. Hawkes
"On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me."
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"I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this."
Norman Lear
"I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this."
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"Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth."
Edwin Louis Cole
"Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth."
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"Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play."
William Congreve
"Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play."
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"Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states."
Judy Biggert
"Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states."
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"My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment."
Nadia Comaneci
"My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment."
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"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?"
Groucho Marx
"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?"
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"But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage."
Jack Kingston
"But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage."
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"The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials."
Cynthia Nelms
"The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials."
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"When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place."
Helen Gahagan
"When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place."
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"Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank."
Jean de la Bruyere
"Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank."
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"In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way."
Iris Murdoch
"In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way."
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"The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage."
Al Goldstein
"The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage."
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"I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure."
Julie Christie
"I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure."
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"You will often be in despair. You will sometimes think it's the worst decision in your life. That's fine. That's not a sign your marriage has gone wrong. It's a sign that it's normal it's on track. And many of the hopes that took you into the marriage will have to die in order for the marriage to continue."
Alain de Botton
"You will often be in despair. You will sometimes think it's the worst decision in your life. That's fine. That's not a sign your marriage has gone wrong. It's a sign that it's normal it's on track. And many of the hopes that took you into the marriage will have to die in order for the marriage to continue."
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"The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees."
Demi Moore
"The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees."
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"The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year."
Hedy Lamarr
"The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year."
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"College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage."
George Gobel
"College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage."
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"Now I'm a wife and a mother of two. It's a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage, because that's what it's like to be together for so long and go through what we've been through. I can't really have that relationship with them anymore."
Gwen Stefani
"Now I'm a wife and a mother of two. It's a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage, because that's what it's like to be together for so long and go through what we've been through. I can't really have that relationship with them anymore."
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"The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction."
Milton R. Sapirstein
"The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction."
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"I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing?"
Paul Begala
"I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing?"
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"Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker."
Mary Douglas
"Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker."
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"Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?"
Brigitte Bardot
"Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?"
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"Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats."
Marge Piercy
"Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats."
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"Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them."
Sydney Smith
"Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them."
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"Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty."
Jerry Weller
"Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty."
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"The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard."
Jim Bunning
"The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard."
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"I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there."
Marla Maples
"I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there."
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"I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more."
Marc Chagall
"I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more."
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"Books and marriage go ill together."
Moliere
"Books and marriage go ill together."
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"I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be."
Jennifer Garner
"I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be."
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"I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted."
Bernadette Peters
"I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted."
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"There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce."
Norman Mailer
"There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce."
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"I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily."
Paul Getty
"I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily."
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"One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance."
Iris Murdoch
"One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance."
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"I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights."
Alan Autry
"I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights."
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"Although we hardly see each other off the set, Joy and I get along well when we do. As far as the marriage between Nathan and Haley, I think they are young and will see the reality of the situation eventually."
James Lafferty
"Although we hardly see each other off the set, Joy and I get along well when we do. As far as the marriage between Nathan and Haley, I think they are young and will see the reality of the situation eventually."
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"Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once."
Eva Gabor
"Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once."
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"Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture."
Juan Antonio Samaranch
"Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture."
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"It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage."
Sophia Bush
"It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage."
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"When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit."
Donald Johanson
"When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit."
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"It's nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed."
Carrie Underwood
"It's nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed."
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"To us marriage is first, everything else is second."
Julie Benz
"To us marriage is first, everything else is second."
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"A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married."
H. L. Mencken
"A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married."
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"The most important thing in marriage is not happiness but stability."
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"The most important thing in marriage is not happiness but stability."
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"A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement."
Paul Getty
"A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement."
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"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career."
Gloria Steinem
"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career."
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"She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over."
David Gest
"She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over."
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"We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship."
Daniel Drew
"We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship."
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"Well married, a man is winged-ill-matched, he is shackled."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Well married, a man is winged-ill-matched, he is shackled."
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