Daphne Guinness Quotes
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.
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The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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Lady Diana Spencer looked to relatively unknown designers - David and Elizabeth Emanuel, recently graduated from the Royal College of Art - when she wed Prince Charles in 1981.
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I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.
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Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
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I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships.
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I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.
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I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
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My role in the White House was grossly exaggerated by the press. Fortunately for the American people, when the president had to make a critical economic decision or a decision on a weapons system, he did not turn to me and say, 'Hamilton, what in the hell do I do?'
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In drama school, I entered a singing competition, which I ended up winning, which was great.
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It's true that most people in the trans community don't have the incredible wealth and privilege that Caitlyn does. I don't think that, in any way, diminishes her struggle in her own transitioning.
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In fiction, beauty was run-of-the-mill.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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You're more constrained when you're wealthy. Or when you're making a bigger film and people complain about no budgets; but having a small amount of money to make a film means you're at your absolute freest to express yourself as an artist.
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In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.
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Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.
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Normally, you should be dead if you have a retrospective.
