"There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and educate yourself with all kinds of stories."
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"The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities."
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"Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism."
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"Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love."
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"If I were proud of anything in my life, it would be of our love. I feel we have to tell to each other as many things as we can, so we are not only lovers, but the closest of friends at the same time."
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"The Brits are ghastly. I never would accept a Brit. It would be like Laurence Olivier being happy getting a TV Times award."
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"Life would be so colourful if only I had a drink problem."
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"I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy."
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"In the beginning I just was dreaming about working in fashion at all, no matter what the role would be, and it just seemed so unlikely. I was living in San Diego and it seemed so far away."
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"I would stare into the bright lights and imagine I could do anything. Be anything. And I would tell myself it would be me up there one day."
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"Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature."
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"Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane."
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"Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me."
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"There exists in our society widespread fear of judging…[B]ehind the unwillingness to judge lurks the suspicion that no one is a free agent, and hence doubt that anyone is responsible or could be expected to answer for what he has done…Who has ever maintained that by judging a wrong I presuppose that I myself would be incapable of committing it?"
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"If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty"
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"If I had even a slight awareness, and practiced the Great Way, what I would fear would be deviating from it."
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"If I never won a Grammy, I would be satisfied, if in fact I could help people. I don't say that because it sounds like something cool to say."
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"Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do."
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"I would be happy living on a massive ranch in Montana and not seeing anyone except my friends and family."
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"I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. I found when I tried to put that into practice, not only were other people seldom lovable but I wasn't very lovable myself."
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