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The only person who had any control was Jonathan Harris. His character was so flamboyant that he was able to make things happen. My character was fairly one-dimensional, so I had my relationship with Dr. Smith and with the family. ↗

— Mark Goddard

#any #character #control #dr #fairly

What is fame? an empty bubble; Gold? a transient, shining trouble. ↗

— James Grainger

#empty #fame #gold #shining #transient

When you like something, you should do it all night long. ↗

— Chavela Vargas

#like #long #night #should #something

Phyllis, then seventeen, had grown into a lovely girl, although she was still in school uniform. Thus, Hera made it known that her beautiful daughter`s virginity was once more for sale & she had set the asking price at twenty thousand dollars. She would use the proceeds from the sale to clear her debts, & the surplus, she would give to Vicky in compensation for the three thousand dollars she had paid four years earlier to preserve Phyllis` virginity.[MMT] ↗

— Nicholas Chong

#beauty

I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first. ↗

— Seth Godin

#books #bunch #economics #favor #first

I understand that Republicans-running-against-Obamacare-in-order-to-save-Medicare is a clever jujitsu. But how long will they play out that argument before they get back to the economy? ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#back #before #clever #economy #get

We still have a lot of international partner modules that need to get up there to make it truly the international structure that it will be, and that's highly important; we need to get to where the crew size is bigger. ↗

— Linda M. Godwin

#crew #get #highly #important #international

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#better #book #friend #honest #i

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#cannot #even #fall #fallibility #get

Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all. ↗

— Rube Goldberg

#diet #had #i #just #last