Bill Cunningham Quotes
I could never concentrate on Sunday church services because I'd be concentrating on women's hats.
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A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other.
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Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.
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The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
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My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.
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On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone.
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If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'
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I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.
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Mentorship is an incredibly huge responsibility. And you need to choose your mentors carefully, just like mentors choose their apprentices carefully. There has to be trust there, on a very deep level.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18.
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The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.
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I'd always thought that if I could get sober and stay sober, I would be able to have a career making music. My drug and alcohol addiction was the one thing holding me back. I had finally gotten the tools to stay sober, and it was just a matter of writing the songs.
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I could never concentrate on Sunday church services because I'd be concentrating on women's hats.
