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“I think we made huge positive changes and Thunder Bay is in a better place than it was four years ago.”
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“My door was open part of the time, and part of the time I tried to get a nap and their voices annoyed me, and I closed it. I kept it open in summer more or less, and closed in winter.”
Source : Lizzie Borden, Albert Mason, Caleb Blodgett, Justin Dewey, Massachusetts. Superior Court (Bristol County) (1937). “Trial of Lizzie Borden”
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“In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.”
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“No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting.”
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“I treat the act of making a record very much like working in a laboratory, experimenting with sounds and ideas... Whoever chooses to latch onto it, great; whoever doesn't, that's fine, too. The reaction always pales in comparison to the weight of the act of production.”
Source : "'Time' Is Right for Songwriter Ward" by Jill Menze, www.reuters.com. January 10, 2009.
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“Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights for one bout and winds up with five million bucks. Me, I play 190 games--if you count exhibitions -- and I'm overpaid!”
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“I have my faithful rhyming dictionary that sits up there on my desk, but I have to tell you, there are very few new rhymes that I didn't think of. I often just go right through the alphabet in my head when I'm looking for a rhyme.”
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“When there is suffering, we look for a reason. That reason is easiest found within oneself.”
Source : Clare Vanderpool (2010). “Moon Over Manifest”, p.154, Delacorte Books for Young Readers