Golden Quotes - Page 13

• I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.

  Carly Rae Jepsen

  Art, College, Idols

  Interview With Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. August 27, 2012.

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• I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.

  Mother Jones

  California, Southern, Railroads

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• I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

  Helen Keller

  Happy, God, Dark

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• The golden child may be the oldest one, unless it's the youngest. It may be the toughest one, unless it's the most sensitive. It's not even necessary that Mom and Dad have the same favorite - and typically they don't.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Mom, Dad, Children

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• At the end of the day, the Golden Rule is called the Golden Rule for a reason - do unto others as you would have done to you. In terms of commandments you could probably just do that one and you would be well off. If everybody could adhere to that one, we'd be OK, as long as a masochist wasn't in charge of people.

  Chad Kroeger

  Long, People, The End Of The Day

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• I keep waiting for the roof to cave in. I was raised to follow the Golden Rule, you know, treat people the way you wish to be treated. That's kind of the way I live my life. Maybe someone up there likes me for that.

  Matt LeBlanc

  People, Waiting, Wish

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• I've been nominated for Emmys and Golden Globes, but I've never won one and I probably never will.

  Denis Leary

  Globes, Emmys

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• Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.

  A. J. Liebling

  Sweet, New York, Texas

  A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.550, Macmillan

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• I'm not one of those people who wakes up and thinks, 'Bring on the day!' I have to have about 7 pints of coffee before I'm even remotely awake. But I love the golden hour in the evening, as hokey as that sounds. Just as the sun is about to set and you get those lovely shadows and everything looks gold and yellow.

  Stacy London

  Coffee, Thinking, Yellow

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• Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  House, Intelligence, Rooms

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.114

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• Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Snakes, Crow, Enemy

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• Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

  Martin Luther

  Dog, Resurrection Of Jesus Christ, Tails

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• My Golden Rule of Networking is simple: Don't keep score.

  Harvey Mackay

  Simple, Networking, Score

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• The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.

  Imelda Marcos

  Real, People, Philippines

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

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• My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.

  Susana Martinez

  Mom, Dad, Marine

  "Republican Convention: Susana Martinez Admits Differences but Backs Romney" by Andrew O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2012.

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• Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

  Karl Marx

  Money, Eggs, Add

  "Capital, Volume I". Book by Karl Marx, Vol. I, Ch. 4, pp. 171 - 172, 1867.

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• When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.

  Danica McKellar

  Memories, Dad, Father

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• Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

  John Milton

  Death, Keys, Eternity Of Life

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• Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.

  Susanna Moodie

  Encouraging, Dark, Clouds

  Susanna Moodie (2010). “Life in the Clearings versus the Bush”, p.11, New Canadian Library

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• God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Inspirational, God, Dedication

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• Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers.

  Max Muller

  Opposites, House, Church

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• Where children are, there is the golden age.

  Novalis

  Children, Age, Literature

  Novalis (1960). “Hymns to the night: and other selected writings”

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• I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Care, Dignity

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.

  David Ogilvy

  Men, Agency, Eggs

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Just because the Americans are so good at rattling out accessible and cheap junk food, nobody looks twice when it comes to their food. But there are golden nuggets everywhere.

  Jamie Oliver

  Junk, Nuggets, Looks

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

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