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"Everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like a sort of chunk out of you. I don' think they realize it, but it's like 'grrr do this, grr do that' But you do want to stay intact-intact and on two feet."
"How do I know about a man's needs for a sex symbol? I'm a girl."
"Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out."
"When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half."
"Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin!"
"I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always."
"I create offbeat advice; I don't follow it. I rarely take third-party advice on my investments."
"Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have."
"Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?"
"Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of."
"One man's style must not be the rule of another's."
"A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill."
"Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does."
"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."
"There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions."
"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage."
"One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty."
"I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety."
"I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read."
"But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966."
