Marisa Berenson Quotes
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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Luck marches with those who give their very best.
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I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
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Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
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How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Constitution and demonstrate exactly how traditional judicial warrants can gather all the info we need - and how bulk collection really hasn't worked.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim.
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The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.
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There's no such thing as too much. If there's too much, then that's a great thing.
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Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.
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It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?
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People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.
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Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way - pouty.
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I climb mountains.
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I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help them was shattering for me.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
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For me, becoming a celebrity was like being in the eye of a hurricane. Suddenly, I was an international cover girl. Everybody was lapping up my Hemingwayness. They wanted to rub elbows with me or brush up against me.
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My ultimate goal is to become a saint.
