Dorothea Dix Quotes

There is, I think, great difficulty in writing of one's self: it is almost impossible to present subjects where the chief actor must be conspicuous and not seem to be, or really be, egotistical.

Dorothea Dix

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 4, 1802 - July 17, 1887

Topics

GreatWritingImpossibleThinkSelf

I really feel like it's a travesty to make a child famous. I really do.

Joe Rogan

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I hate to think life is just facts and laws.

Ang Lee

LifeHateThinkFactsLawsJust

Ideas have consequences.

Robert Zubrin

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I don't like the term 'ensemble.' It's bland to me.

Lorenzo di Bonaventura

MeLikeEnsembleBlandTerm

If nobody has really done a show about people in their twenties that has been successful, why?

Jason Katims

PeopleNobodyDoneWhySuccessful

I have lots of friends. I mix with all sorts of people, of all generations.

Jonathan King

PeopleFriendsGenerationsMixLots

Young girls look to me as a role model and think I crash diet to keep slim. That's not true, I always eat properly.

Denise Van Outen

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I didn't smoke. I didn't smoke then, and I don't smoke now. We worked every day - that keeps you in pretty good shape. We could go for a long time in one take. You had to be in good shape with Gene Kelly.

Donald O'Connor

GoodTimeDayLongYouEvery Day

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.

Claude Debussy

FeelingNakedFleshMuchHowBefore

From here it sounds great to say we'll all get together soon, but all I know is this: you can call me fifty days or fifty years from now and I'll be glad to see you.

Richard Hooker

GreatTogetherMeGet TogetherYou

I say funny stuff in my lyrics to make people laugh, but it's all in the seriousness of the music. I'm just being witty.

Rich Brian

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Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.

Richard Barnfield

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