Let Me Quotes - Page 23

• Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.

  Jan Karon

  Book, Writing, Common

  "Leaving Mitford: Jan Karon on Life and Writing". Interview with Belinda Elliott, www.cbn.com.

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• If a man's esteem and gratitude are ever worth the winning, you have won mine today. If ever the future should bring to you a time when you need a man's help, believe me, you will not call in vain. God grant that no such time may ever come to you to break the sunshine of your life; but if it should ever come, promise me that you will let me know.

  Bram Stoker

  Gratitude, Believe, Sunshine

  Bram Stoker (1987). “Dracula: World Classics”, p.242, World Classic

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• Let me give you a few simple rules for learning to draw. First, see of what shape the whole thing is. Next, put in the line that marks the movement of the whole. Don't have more than one movement in a figure; you can't patch parts together. Simple lines; then simple values. Establish the fact of the whole. Is it square, oblong, cube, or what is it?

  William Morris Hunt

  Simple, Squares, Giving

  William Morris Hunt (1976). “William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing”, Dover Pubns

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• I was fourteen years old when I went to my first suffrage meeting. Returning from school one day, I met my mother just setting out for the meeting, and I begged her to let me go along.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Mother, School, Years

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.7, 谷月社

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• Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Running, Poison, Looks

  Saint Ignatius of Loyola (2012). “The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!

  Ignatius of Loyola

  May, Helping, Lord

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• But let me do I will show the world what gymnastics looks like. Well may be this is a future gymnastics.

  Olga Korbut

  Sports, Gymnastics, Looks

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• Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in my blood.

  Billy Gibbons

  Kids, Blood, Littles

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• I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with'.

  Burt Bacharach

  Thinking, Giving, Drs

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• I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write these books, is just to say don't be so sure of yourself. Let me pull the carpet out from underneath you, and let's see if you can still find the footing.

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Believe, Writing

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, Bob Faw, www.pbs.org. April 24, 2009.

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• Well, you know, first of all, let me just say that I am a proud member of the NRA and have been, and I'm a lifetime member and will always be.

  Joe Manchin

  Proud, Firsts, Lifetime

  "Gun Advocate Sen. Joe Manchin Calls For Gun Law Changes After Newtown". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 18, 2012.

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• When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I was devastated. All I could do was read, and I read and I read. And I'd read something like, you know, 'Subtle hints of cassis.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Wine, Parent, Experts

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• I'd love to be an artist that's multifaceted. At the moment, I am not. But wouldn't that be cool if I was like, 'Yeah, let me pull out my guitar and play you a song.' I would adore that. I am so far not gifted in that way. But I am a very hard worker and a very determined person, so who knows?

  Anne Hathaway

  Song, Hard Work, Artist

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• All I want to do is be normal. But really, it's other people who won't let me be that way.

  Christina Aguilera

  People, Want, Way

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• Let me tell you this, if I had wanted to have a library of audio and videotapes of Bill Clinton, I could have had that. And after I was accused of being a liar, I wished that I had of.

  Gennifer Flowers

  Liars, Library, Audio

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• I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible... but I was able to have a wonderful time just walking around with Dad. I can see the real pleasure of that game.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Dad, Real, Golf

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• If you want me to swim fast, you have to let me enjoy my life.

  Amanda Beard

  Swim, Want, Enjoy

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• I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.

  Colin Baker

  Father, Thinking, Oxford

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• I feel so fortunate, so honored, to have played this game that I love for so long, with so many great players, and in front of so many wonderful fans. I fulfilled a childhood dream the first time I stepped on an NFL field, and the league did not let me down one time.

  Drew Bledsoe

  Dream, Player, Games

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• Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Real, Cutting, Thinking

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• Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth?

  Mark Bittman

  Swimming, Filth, Salmon

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• Let me share some facts with you about the law in most of our country. California is in many ways a little different from the rest of the world, and California has better gun laws than many states, although California's need to be improved.

  Michael D. Barnes

  Country, Gun, California

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• Well, my aspirations certainly were not to be in a pre-school show. I mean, it's certainly nothing that I considered; it's nothing I ever thought anyone would ever let me do.

  Steve Burns

  School, Mean, Aspiration

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• I'm competitive. I like to compete, and that's basically what the decathlon lets me do.

  Bryan Clay

  Decathlon

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• Let me tell you something: if you're on an island for three and a half months and you're four and a half hours by boat from the nearest store, and there's nobody but 30 crew members on the island, I guarantee that you'd be running around without your clothes on.

  Christopher Atkins

  Running, Islands, Guarantees That

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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