Bill Cunningham Quotes
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You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
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The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
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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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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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I always said a prayer before I ran, and my prayer was to win. My prayer was that God would allow me to run my best on that day, or better than my best. So whatever the outcome is, I have to be satisfied with it if I know I gave it my best effort.
Gail Devers -
One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.
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I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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I still have to audition for most things.
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It's pronounced 'Romaine', like the lettuce.
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I learned that Congress is a place with more heart than courage; there are more good souls in Washington than brave ones. I learned that the whole is not always the sum of its parts: that what you put in doesn't always match what you get out.
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What we should admire is the acute fulfillment of the unspoken assumptions, the smooth harmony of the whole activity, which only become evident in the final success.
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I'm really not good with money, and I don't pay attention.
