Traci Lords Quotes

#1. I'm successful in spite of my past, not because of it!

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#2. Once you really understand your role ... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.

C. Thomas Howell

#3. My happiest childhood memories are of times in our backyard. My mother had an old clothesline that hung out in front. It seemed like it stretched a mile long, and I loved sitting in the sun while she hung clothes.

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#4. If you're sexy, everybody will love you. That's what I wanted
for everybody to love me.

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#5. I feel sublime Then I lose ground Tripping on words That have no sound of love

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#6. It's good to remember where you've been.

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#7. Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.

Carey Williams

#8. A library is a temple unabridged with priceless treasure. Librarians are the majesties who loan the jewels of measure. They welcome to the kingdom the young and old of reapers and reign among the riches as the wondrous fortune keepers.

Pam Munoz Ryan

#9. Be good or don't get caught.

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#10. More than anything else, my mother wanted to be an actress - a famous actress - which in the 1950s was all about being young, sexy, and available. She was all that, and more. She had big blue eyes, alabaster skin, a heart-shaped face, a beautiful figure. She was just a knockout.

Meredith Baxter

#11. I would want to be a very present mother. You know, something that I never had.

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#12. Ridiculously - fortunately - my first job was with Dustin Hoffman. I had a little part in this movie called Tootsie. And he taught me how to watch dailies. That it was very important.

Geena Davis

#13. More is not better. Better is better. You don't need a bigger house; you need a different floor plan. You don't need more stuff; you need stuff you'll actually use.

Alex Steffen

#14. Repetition is a form of change

Peter Schmidt

#15. Everybody in the world is capable of democratic development. Some people in the world are unlucky enough to get stuck with really bad political leadership and with really bad political institutions.

Condoleezza Rice

#16. Hatred is the greatest cancer that we must squash.

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#17. You consume me I don't even fight Oh, I feel intoxicated ... But beware I bite.

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#18. I am climbing to the top Of the tallest darkest tree I need to know Where heaven stops What lies Beyond the dream

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#19. We're all dancing in the darkness.

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#20. I have so many other interests: Writing, acting, directing, real life, I need little pieces of it all to satisfy me. The thirst is deep and I am complicated.

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#21. I wanted to make sure the last chapters of my life were full, and painting, it turns out, has helped occupy not only space but opened my mind.

George W. Bush

#22. I think sleep is unrated.

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#23. I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So if books like this inspire kids to write, or even read a whole book, I think it's good.

Don Novello

#24. All we really have here on this earth is those who love us.

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#25. I've said this before, and I know this raises questions in the minds of some evangelicals. I do not believe that my mother, who never formally embraced Christianity as far as I know ... I do not believe she went to hell.

Barack Obama

#26. Honestly, the best skater that I've seen who raps is Tyler, The Creator. He really can skate ... He's legit.

Tony Hawk

#27. We're all monsters ... Being a monster is not the same as being a bad person. It just means you're willing to eat the world if that's what you have to do to keep yourself alive.

Mira Grant