Anna Quindlen Quotes

Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.

Anna Quindlen

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I'm on so late I'm definitely the last seconds of anyone's attention. So I just want to give them something dumb to laugh at, so they go, 'That's funny,' then fall asleep.

Jimmy Fallon

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In college, I used to underline sentences that struck me, that made me look up from the page. They were not necessarily the same sentences the professors pointed out, which would turn up for further explication on an exam. I noted them for their clarity, their rhythm, their beauty and their enchantment.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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I hear actors complain about being stereotyped, and a lot of the time, you have yourself to blame. Just don't take the part if you feel like it's a stereotypical part for you. You have control over your life. We don't have the old studio system, where you have to do what they tell you.

John C. Reilly

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There are naked people in boots on a mountain top firing guns.

Andy Richter

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For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain.

Jeff Bezos

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The threshold of the Dream Act is not high enough. One year of community college is not enough... No, I do not support the Dream Act.

Michael Baumgartner

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Even though chess isn't the toughest thing that computers will tackle for centuries, it stood as a handy symbol for human intelligence. No matter what human-like feat computers perform in the future, the Deep Blue match demands an indelible dot on all timelines of AI progress.

Steven Levy

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Then there's the story of ill-fated love. It's universal.

Rita Moreno

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It wasn't that I was shy to go out with him, I just didn't want people with preconceived notions to assume anything about why we were together. I was pretty careful for a while.

Rose McGowan

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A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Ronald Knox

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If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

Mary Baker Eddy

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How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can't - at least not in the moment.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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