Quotern

Quotern

The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became the whole nation's little sisters.

-- Lawrence Welk

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We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.

-- Sheryl Sandberg

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I began to think, now is the time. I found quite a lot of opposition in Hollywood about the idea of doing a film musical and we ended up having to buy the rights back. I'm glad we did because it meant John and I were able to make exactly the movie we wanted.

-- Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

-- Pope John XXIII

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The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the early and mid-nineties, it didn't really affect it.

-- Robert D. Kaplan

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That little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Jesus Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

-- Sojourner Truth

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Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain; art also exists for compensating pain.

-- Till Lindemann

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There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student.

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There is no more consensus on what justice means than there is on the character of the good. If anything, there is less. Among the virtues, justice is one of the most shaped by convention. For that reason it is among the most changeable.

-- John N. Gray

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What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.

-- Christopher Hitchens

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