September 2011
32 posts
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“You are your best thing.”
– Toni Morrison
August 2011
41 posts
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“I don’t believe that old cliché that good things come to those who wait. I...”
– Ashton Kutcher
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“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not...”
– William Arthur Ward
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“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
– Charles Dickens
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“I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a...”
– Warren Bennis
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“And the turtles, of course…all the turtles are free, as turtles and,...”
– Dr. Seuss, Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
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“The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we...”
– David Duchovny
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“Portland isn’t as connected to and intimate with the sea and tides as Seattle....”
– Frank Bruni, “Seattle, a Tasting Menu”
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“He gave her his phone number, in a peculiar reversal of dating procedure. She...”
– Steve Martin, Shopgirl
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“Stop torturing yourself, her friends said. Stop living in the past. He was gone....”
– Aryn Kyle, Boys and Girls Like You and Me
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“Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even...”
– Tommy, age 6
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“I constructed my personal hell by letting all the mistakes I’ve made and all the...”
– Katarina Mazetti, Benny & Shrimp (via quote-book)
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“I will not be the first one to speak. And if he never calls me again, I’ll...”
– Sarah Jessica Parker, Sex and the City
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“There’s such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why...”
– L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around...”
– John Green, Looking for Alaska
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“Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less,...”
– Swedish proverb
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“She says, You did just fine honey, that’s okay /
Sometimes life’s...”
– Faith Hill, You Can’t Lose Me
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“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live...”
– Muhammad Ali (via quote-book)
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“‘We are going to be the best of friends,’ said Gilbert, jubilantly....”
– L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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“Look at all these people, these normal, non-traumatised people - in...”
– Adam Brody, The O.C.
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“If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do...”
– Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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“There’s nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything...”
– Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
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“For two weeks, I lay awake at night and said Hail Marys over and over to stop my...”
– Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
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“What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh,...”
– Tennessee Williams
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“When nothing is sure, everything is possible.”
– Margaret Drabble
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“Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family...”
– Eric Weiner, The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World
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“Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in...”
– Faith Whittlesey
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“it was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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“Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.”
– Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
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“Where do I see myself in ten years?.. That’s a good question. Okay, uh...”
– Adam Brody, The O.C.
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“If someone wants to be a part of your life, they’ll be there. So don’t bother...”
– Michael Cera
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“Sometimes, Soraya sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen...”
– Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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“Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there’s nothing...”
– Ani Difranco, Good, Bad, Ugly
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“I’ve met very few dumb gay guys. It takes some intelligence and insight to...”
– Jason Bateman
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“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,...”
– Albert Einstein
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“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot
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“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
– C.S. Lewis
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“She’s tough. She tries to hide it. She’s difficult. But if you make...”
– Patrick Dempsey, Grey’s Anatomy
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“Lou thought Jane was getting too old to regard her bitterness as the natural...”
– Annie Dillard, The Maytrees
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“I called Kevin Spacey one day about something else, but he didn’t say to me...”
– Gabriel Byrne calling up Kevin Spacey—who got a 1999 Tony nomination for his performance in O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh—and ask him how to pull off this role (via andrewkiernan)
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“I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except...”
– John Green, Paper Towns 