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I had too much else to do. I didn't want to turn into a newspaper columnist full time.


Barbara Ehrenreich

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LEWIS GRIZZARD I feel like I just want to enjoy life and spend time with my daughter who is about to turn two, whic...
BOW WOW I know what I try to do. I try to be professional, turn up, not make too much fuss, do the job.
EDDIE MARSAN It lasted about as long as I expected it to last. To put a time frame on it, or anything else, you'r...
LARRY FOSTER But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.
PIERS ANTHONY I don't want to spend too much time dwelling on what I've already done because there is stil...
SOPHIA AMORUSO I love standing on the pitch too much to focus on anything else - if I want to be a coach or somethi...
BASTIAN SCHWEINSTEIGER If you're into genealogy, read the newspaper. If I don't read anything else in the newspaper, I read...
BONNIE BROTHERS Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD If you lose your temper at a newspaper columnist, he'll get rich or famous or both.
JAMES C. HAGERTY I want to do something for Kirkcaldy and Fife. I am a full-time MP, not a businessman.
GORDON BROWN [Cats] are blissfully unaware that they have only a finite time in which to finish their ‘to do’...
JON EDGELL We had so much damage I came out here full time. It took a long time to get caught up.
ERIK WIGERT Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it.
, TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS I also watched a lot of football and sports. I haven't had much time to watch too much TV lately.
CASPER DIEN I also watched a lot of football and sports. I haven't had much time to watch too much TV lately.
CASPER VAN DIEN [Early that week, someone in the administration told syndicated newspaper columnist Robert Novak tha...
ROBERT NOVAK Ya were going to turn me into a rat? Had I known that I wouldn’t have tried to turn ya into a snak...
MICHELLE M. PILLOW I want to do whatever I can to survive.
SAM SIMON After we grew up, we had families, we had full-time jobs. For many years, we were all too busy to do...
COLLEEN BROWN Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN It's been on TV too much. I didn't want to do that.
JUSSI JOKINEN I just want to win. I don't really try to do too much. But when it comes down to time to win, then w...
LAZARUS SIMS I am a newspaper columnist and a professional screenwriter, but my real love is the novel for all th...
W. BRUCE CAMERON You've had a year. I know people turn over and that those things happen. ... But I don't think we wa...
ASSEMBLYWOMAN LESLIE You've had a year. I know people turn over and that those things happen. ... But I don't think we wa...
ASSEMBLYWOMAN SHEILA LESLIE I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.
STEPHEN HAWKING In my study, there are stacks of papers to grade, books I should have read & reviewed months ago...
JESS ROW I didn't want to turn into Martha Stewart. I wanted to turn into a more organized, more gracious...
JEN LANCASTER I learn the most from trial and error. I learn about what I'd like to be able to do from people ...
MAYER HAWTHORNE They want me. I want you. And you want someone else. But none of us want to turn around.
PLEASEFINDTHIS I was very careful to try and avoid that impression. These kids had to do everything that everybody ...
BUFF RADICK Too much want to do.
PAVEL DATSYUK I didn't think much of it at the time, but I never thought it would turn into this,
EDITH SHAIN I?m serious about going into full-time rallying and with a chance like this, I?m motivated to do my ...
ADRIAN LAM If you dont love somebody, it gets annoying if they tell you what to do or what to feel. When you lo...
DONALD MILLER I prefer you think that I'm like everybody else, ... I'm just Barbara.
BARBARA SPIEGEL How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and manage...
GEORGE LUCAS The world – much too little time was given to me to wander a land so full of wonders.
MARIANA FULGER I had to do the full body shave for the first coupla weeks of 'White Chicks,' then I said, &...
MARLON WAYANS I used to think in the good old days, all a newspaper had to do to attract circulation was to put ou...
JOHN MORTON Every time you overhear something hurtful, I want you to do something kind for someone else.
SUZE ORMAN I want to enjoy the full pleasure of our victory, but then turn to new things I hope to achieve in f...
RONALDO I always have a very complex personal life as far as romance goes. Sometimes I have a little too muc...
EMILY MEADE I want to turn my life into sad adventure and myths.
J. LIMBU I was a really big fan of cartoons growing up, and I loved to read too much into them most of the ti...
REBECCA SUGAR I want to win so bad, but I think I've had too much of that lore for attraction that you'll ...
JASON DAY When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that...
J. TILLMAN It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything ...
JOSEPH ROSS I haven't had the opportunity to slide, but that's not going to be a problem. I can pretty much do w...
JASON KUBEL Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
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NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE I live in Greenwich Village in New York City, but I rarely write at home, where there's too much...
CHRIS PAVONE I don't want to give them too much credit. But let's not anoint them God's gift. They're a good team...
KURT PAULY I think art cannot be planned. The audience is too smart to get the dishonesty or 'too much plan...
PRIYANKA CHOPRA The little bit of time I had to refresh was refreshing. It gave me a lot of time to think about what...
J.P. LOSMAN I don't want to turn 50 and say, 'Gosh, I wish I'd lived in that part of the world for a...
CHARLIE TROTTER I can't help it, Alexis," he said "I want to make you think too much...and then I want to hear the t...
KATIE ALENDER You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE “My to do list is so long, my grandchildren will have to finish it.”
ROSS ELDER I normally don't shoot from out there, but there wasn't much time and I didn't have time to make a p...
COURTNEY MCCOMAS The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS The same way i could live when I didnt know you, I can live without you after letting you go, But th...
DALEEN IRSHAID Santa Barbara is my hood. I mean, it's not much of a hood, but it is definitely like my hood. I ...
KATY PERRY I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read th...
TABITHA SOREN I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started wri...
RACHEL PLATTEN It's somewhat historic, ... This golf course has been here a long time and it's hard to see it turn ...
DAVID KNOWLES It is much harder to do it part-time. You have to have full-time coaches.
COLIN JACKSON I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunit...
JO BRAND Going into the Lutz I realized that because of the regulations, I had to do a double or else it woul...
JEFF BUTTLE It wasn't too much different [except] this time it was a lot better to come back - I had a wife to c...
MATT CLARK I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.
ELIZABETH I (SPOKEN TO HER PARLAMENT) Anything's possible. If I turn round tomorrow and say I want to be a spaceman, I could do that. ...
SAM SMITH When the time comes, I will leave without uttering a word. So if you want me to stay, stop the time ...
VIPIN ONGALATHE By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my hors...
TANYA TUCKER I think it's a great album, but it came out at the wrong time. We got a bad deal and it was a very w...
ERIC CARR There have been a handful of assignments over the years that I've had to turn down due to time c...
ADRIAN TOMINE I'm not playing myself. It's a symbolic situation, where I want to introduce a fascist behin...
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NICOLAS CAGE Now my body is really womanly - a little too much so. It's something I can fall back on. When I don'...
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ALDEN EHRENREICH I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff.
ALDEN EHRENREICH I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always k...
ALDEN EHRENREICH I haven't worked enough to worry about getting typecast, but I do as a film lover didn't wan...
ALDEN EHRENREICH The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world th...
ALDEN EHRENREICH Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that g...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I have a pig valve.
BARBARA BUSH Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
BARBARA WALTERS Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is count...
BARBARA BOXER In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda post...
BARBARA DEMICK Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaki...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he cou...
BARBARA CORCORAN Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the found...
BARBARA SMITH I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to se...
BARBARA WALTERS A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
BARBARA WALTERS I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you hav...
BARBARA WALTERS First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as...
BARBARA WALTERS I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the sa...
BARBARA WALTERS The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
BARBARA WALTERS I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
BARBARA WALTERS Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children...
BARBARA WALTERS Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but ha...
BARBARA WALTERS When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you ...
BARBARA WALTERS A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
BARBARA WALTERS Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges,...
BARBARA WALTERS Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subj...
BARBARA WALTERS I didn't have a very religious family.
BARBARA WALTERS Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
BARBARA WALTERS To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Gho...
BARBARA TUCHMAN To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
BARBARA TUCHMAN For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the h...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
BARBARA TUCHMAN The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
BARBARA TUCHMAN No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Books are humanity in print.
BARBARA TUCHMAN War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
BARBARA TUCHMAN The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell wi...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
BARBARA TUCHMAN I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
BARBARA STEELE Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
BARBARA STEELE