Daphne Guinness Quotes
Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
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I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.
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I talk to the universe all the time.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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No one has a right to comment on anyone's life or the choices I do or don't make.
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Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
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We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.
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We have always had great and loyal fans in Oakland.
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In the United States, it is unmistakable that young people have broken away from the political right and have gravitated to more leftist-populist figures like Bernie Sanders.
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Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them.
