Frida Kahlo Quotes
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
Quotes to Explore
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Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
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We are all seduced by charismatic people, whether it's in your office or in the bus or in the train. There are people who just, like, come through the door, and everybody turns around and looks at them and feels drawn to them.
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The American fans would love to see me fight anybody.
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The fact is, funnily enough, that the people who seem to be most committed to causes also seem to be least invested in anyone actually talking to each other.
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Do I want to tackle a 230-pound guy who's running like a deer? Heavens no, no one in their right mind would. But there is something that drives me and compels me to stick my head in there and give it my best shot.
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Fashion is always seen as somewhat frivolous and self-indulgent. And I think people on the inside maybe don't see or understand how exciting and diverse a business it is.
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We shot 'High School Musical' in eight weeks. I spent longer rehearsing for 'Hairspray' than filming 'High School Musical'.
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I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.
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Ryan finally came to my rescue. He'd thought working together in Paper Moon would help us bond.
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Let's be honest: I just want a Super Bowl ring.
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One of the primary ways that astronomers study stars is to spread their light out into a rainbow, which we call a spectrum, and from that rainbow, we can learn something about what the stars are composed of and how hot they are, how bright they are, and how they're moving, at least how they're moving toward or away from us.
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When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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Nobody knows what a woman feels or experiences but another woman. We are the nurturers and there are times when we need to be nurtured.
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Reading 'Moby-Dick' helps you discover how to live.
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I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the white professors were relieved, and the black students were like, 'She's on our side.' These are the kinds of issues that a white male artist just doesn't have to deal with.
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The winters are too long, and there's only one airline, so it's difficult to escape when you feel frustrated or claustrophobic. The audience for our films isn't very large, so it's difficult to support an industry. But, Iceland is beautiful. Sometimes it's hard to imagine living anywhere else.
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A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.
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Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
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I've always been interested in science fiction.
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I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it.
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We now have powerful technology, which allows us a voice across boundaries, which was unimaginable at the time of the Greenham Protest, a protest that pre-dates the Internet and the mobile phone.
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Grown-ups do a lot of complaining!
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She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been caught up in one such collection of people and their doings after the next…The pleasure of this sort of life – bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life – had made her isolation into a rich and even subversive thing. She inhabited one consoling or horrifying persona after another…That she was childless and husbandless and poor meant less once she picked up a book. Her mistakes disappeared into it. She lived with an invented force.
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I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
