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I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights. I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'. I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.

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I made the decision to quit show business. Give up the skintight dresses and manicured smiles. The false concern over sentimental lyrics. I would never again work to make people smile inanely and would take on the responsibility of making them think.

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Its not where your dreams take you, its where you take your dreams.

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By no amount of agile exercising of a wistful imagination could my mother have been called lenient. Generous she was; indulgent never. Kind, yes, permissive, never. In her world, people she accepted paddled their own canoes, pulled their own weight, put their own shoulders to their own plows and pushed like hell.

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I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

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Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

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Love liberates. Love - not sentimentality, not mush - but true love gives you enough courage that you can say to somebody, "Don't do that, baby." And the person will know you're not preaching but teaching.

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I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

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I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

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I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.

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If I'm going to a new country, I try to learn something about the language and the culture, so I don't just go bumbling over things.

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If somebody is really trying to take your head off with a baseball bat - I don't know how long you're supposed to stand there and turn the other cheek, so he or she can get a better angle at taking your head off.

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In spite of everything that was done to me and my race, in spite of the adversity and the bitter moments, again we rise.

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You may not remember what a person said to you, you may not remember what a person did to you, but you will never forget how a person made you feel!

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You may not get what you paid for, but you will pay for what you get.

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You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it.

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Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

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I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all.

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Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his country where formerly he was not even allowed to vote. We were enlarged by tears of pride as we saw Nelson Mandela's former prison guards invited, courteously, by him to watch from the front rows his inauguration.

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There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

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