Freya Stark Quotes
It is only the unexpected that ever makes a customs officer think.
Freya Stark
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
Haley Joel Osment
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
Carine Roitfeld
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It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.
Wayne Dyer
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
Iris Apfel
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
Barbara Boxer
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
Cameron Diaz
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I just write the way I feel, and if it feels good to me, hopefully everybody likes it.
David Bryan
Bon Jovi
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I felt the most effective way to change people's perception was through the power of images.
Alix Smith
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From scarlet to powdered gold, to blazing yellow, to the rare ashen emerald, to the orange and black velvet of your shimmering corselet, out to the tip that like an amber thorn begins you, small, superlative being, you are a miracle, and you blaze
Pablo Neruda
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I used cartoons as diaries. I still do. They're my way of figuring out the world, what's happening to me or what I'm thinking about.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
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If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even now I cannot understand it! I use it every day, I transact half my correspondence by means of it, but I don’t understand it. Thnk of that little stretched disk of iron at the end of a wire repeating in your ear not only sounds, but words-not only words, but all the most delicate and elusive inflections and nuances of tone which separate one human voice from another! Is not that something of a miracle?
William Crookes
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It is only the unexpected that ever makes a customs officer think.
Freya Stark
