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A Clinton staffer tells me his theory. Think about Frank Sinatra, he says: born to sing. Think about Willie Mays: born to play ball. These guys got their power from living lives perfectly suited to their natures. Same with Clinton: his life is perfectly suited to his nature. George Saunders
If anyone says that sex, in itself, is bad, Christianity contradicts him at once. But, of course, when people say, 'Sex is nothing to be ashamed of,' they may mean 'the state into which the sexual instinct has now got is nothing to be ashamed of'. If they mean that, I think they are wrong. I think it is everything to be ashamed of. There is nothing to be ashamed of in enjoying your food: there would be everything to be ashamed of if half the world made food the main interest of their lives... C. S. Lewis
Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: Penny, why don't you write a play about Ism-Mania? Penny Sycamore: Ism-Mania? Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: Yeah, sure, you know, Communism, Faschism, Voodoo-ism, everybody's got an -ism these days. Penny Sycamore: Oh [laughs] Penny Sycamore: I thought it was some kind of itch or something. Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: Well, it's just as catching. When things go a little bad nowadays, you go out, get yourself an -ism and you're in business. George S. Kaufman
So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little. I had not intended to keep May Kasahara a secret from Kumiko. My relationship with her was not that big a deal, finally: whether I mentioned it or not was of no consequence. Once it had flown down a certain delicate channel, however, it had become cloaked in the opacity of secretiveness, whatever my original "intention" had have been. Haruki Murakami
Richard Bach quote: "Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you..."
Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place. Richard Bach
In your walks about London you will sometimes see bent, haggard figures that look as if they had recently been caught in some powerful machinery. They are those fellows who got mixed up with Catsmeat when he was meaning well. P. G. Wodehouse
Carrie Fisher quote: "Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the..."
Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread. Carrie Fisher
Joni Mitchell quote: "Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've..."
Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone. Joni Mitchell
Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. Ursula K. Le Guin
Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's thechoices we make that define who we really are. Charles de Lint
But Dobby shouted, "You shall not harm Harry Potter! ... He got up, face livid, and pulled out his wand, but Dobby raised a long, threatening finger. "You shall go now," he said fiercely, pointing down at Mr. Malfoy. "You shall not touch Harry Potter. You shall go now. J. K. Rowling
At Childerstown High School and at college he had never led his class nor taken prizes; but, without being aware that he did, he really blamed this on his failure to work hard, or any harder than he needed to. . . . What he did not know, what Paul Bonbright, among others, showed him, was that those abilities of his that got him, without distinction but also without much exertion, through all previous lessons and examinations, were not first rate abilities handicapped by laziness, but second... James Gould Cozzens
Ava Gardner quote: "God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be..."
God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't. Ava Gardner
Dan Brown quote: "Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past."
Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past. Dan Brown
Gary L. Francione quote: "In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first"
In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first Gary L. Francione

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