Jake Halpern Quotes

My mother was being hounded by a debt collector over a debt that she didn't owe, and she eventually just paid it because she wanted the calls to stop. I was very surprised. It sounded so strange. I started poking around on the Internet and found this was extremely common.

Jake Halpern

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We're not up there in space just to joyride around. We're up there to do things that are of value to everybody right here on Earth.

John Glenn

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Because I'm a writer, I'm really good at being nervous.

Jeff Giles

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I went to an exhibition at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum about Shanghai, about how courtesans had been influential in bringing western culture to Shanghai. I bought a book and in it saw this striking group of women in a photograph called 'The Ten Beauties of Shanghai'.

Amy Tan

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'Mr. India' was a turning point. Before that, Hindi moviegoers saw me just as a glamour girl. After 'Mr. India,' they felt I could act.

Sridevi

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I have so much. Why did it all happen to me? There has to be a reason.

Stewart Rahr

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Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Find out what you're capable of.

Robyn Davidson

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The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

Milton Sapirstein

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My father was - actually was an Episcopal priest as a young man. Became a psychotherapist, a psychologist. My mother is Jewish, so I grew up in a mixed background. But the common denominator was certainly music, and that was sort of emphasized in my household as music being sort of the spiritual force.

Joshua Bell

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Low turnout in off-year races is always a challenge for Democrats. Many of our voters require information and must be contacted way ahead of Election Day - and reminded of what's at stake.

Donna Brazile

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From 1964 to 1968, I won many state, national and international amateur karate titles.

Chuck Norris

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It's important that Donald Trump and what he represents - this kind of ethnic, quote, 'conservatism,' or populism - be so decisively rebuked that the Republican Party, the Republican voters will forever learn their lesson that they cannot nominate a man so manifestly unqualified to be president in any way, shape, or form.

Bret Stephens

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Most people don't get a fair crack of the whip.

Norman Cook

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