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Letitia Baldrige Quotes

Writers on etiquette receive a continuous flow of questions on subjects such as 'When is it too early in the season to wear white accessories?' and 'What is the proper gift to send to a family in mourning?'

Letitia Baldrige

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: February 9, 1926 - October 29, 2012

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Family Gift Questions Early White

I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.

Jimmy Wales

Simple Down Place Come Any

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John Henrik Clarke

Mother Relationship Child People

I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree.

Robert Mapplethorpe

I think that we value fairness in this country. We value equal opportunity. Without a stable home, those ideals really fall apart.

Matthew Desmond

Home Opportunity Value Think Fall

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

John W. Gardner

Age Tension Aspirations Between Our

Shirley Temple opens doors for Shirley Temple Black.

Shirley Temple

Black Doors Temple Shirley Opens

If you want to be a leader whom people follow with absolute conviction, you have to be a likable leader. Tyrants and curmudgeons with brilliant vision can command a reluctant following for a time, but it never lasts. They burn people out before they ever get to see what anyone is truly capable of.

Travis Bradberry

Leader Vision Time People You Burn

I try to do three active things a day because I have to fit into costumes that are very tight.

RuPaul

Day Three Try Active Things Because

There's a dearth of media around young black women and certainly a dearth of LGBT media for people of color.

Dee Rees

Women People Color Black Media

Twitter is a blessing and a curse at the same time.

Ashley Wagner

Time Blessing Same Curse Twitter

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

Sylvester Stallone

Good Culture Action Morality Modern

Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.

Peter Diamandis

People Internet Will Eight Billion