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I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
John Burroughs
I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it would be a shame for them to go down the drain.
Johnny Otis
Tags: Music Our Them
You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.
Margaret Atwood
Tags: You People Much
But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should confine themselves to doing only social service work. Not at all.
Edith Rogers
Tags: Work Women Me
Marriage was coined at a time when people died when they were 30. That stability would be nice, and I am definitely open-minded about it, but I don't need it in that way some women do.
Georgina Bloomberg
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What I am suggesting is hard work and it can be slow work, but the rewards are well worth it.


Jesse Helms
Tags: Work Am I Am
My parents were very open about what kind of talent I had. They never pushed me to become an accountant because they knew that would be just absolutely ridiculous. So they were encouraging in what I am able to do with some success.
Grace Slick
Tags: Me About Just
If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.
Bill Nye
Tags: You Very Will
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If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.


Cyril Cusack
Tags: You Me Who
An enormous amount of a writer's life is performance. I find myself wondering, at the moment, whether I do too much of it.
Nick Harkaway
Tags: Life Much Myself
Mother believed that I should have an enormous amount of sleep, and so I was never really tired when I went to bed. This was the best time of day, when I could lie in the vague twilight, drifting off to sleep, making up dreams inside my head the way they should go.
Sylvia Plath
Tags: Time Best Dreams
I am extremely content in my life - sometimes to the point where I really should find something to moan about!
Julia Sawalha
Tags: About Really Life
I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions.
Sonia Sotomayor
Tags: Were Am I Am
I am firmly of the view we should keep the police out of politics in Britain, or we risk going the way of American politics, where the Whitewater investigation lasted virtually the whole of the two terms of the Clinton administration but turned up nothing.
Jonathan Powell
Tags: Politics Out Up
I believe in monstrosities, and 'I Am Abraham' is a monstrosity of sorts, raveling out moment by moment with its contrapuntal songs, as if a band of musicians were at play, all of them with Lincoln's beard and disturbing grey eyes.
Jerome Charyn
Tags: Out Them Were
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
Charles Lamb
Tags: Religion Out Up
I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.
Cathy Rigby
Tags: You Like Always
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I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.


Jean Paul Gaultier
Tags: Beauty You People
A baby writer should take inspiration from her predecessors but also find ways to tell her own stories in her own way.
Judith Tarr
Tags: Way Own Take
Either you face the challenges in life head on or back out. And I am not someone to back out from challenges.
Harbhajan Singh
Tags: You Out Life