Elizabeth Taylor Quotes
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.
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My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.
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I want to be in 'Glee', but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.
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The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
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Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
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If I weren't a performer, I would be still be writing and songwriting. Plus, I also really want to get into producing.
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My mother is a proud Brazilian. I love visiting my family in Rio; the city and its people are so vibrant and amazing.
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It's just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style.
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Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.
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My mother was very strong on me to go to college. No one had ever been to college, including my parents.
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
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Sometimes I feel like music has made love to me.
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What's important to me is people just being people.
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My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.
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You must make sure that the majority of the people are not marginalized.
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The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
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Everything is changing in squash. Lots of television coverage and the game has become very professional.
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I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.
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People appreciate a good product, a stable system. They want to communicate easily and use a product that just works.
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Sometimes, I had very little - if any - idea for whom I was really working: at the end of the day, who reaped the profits? Was it a privately controlled German foundation or a global array of stockholders? A middle-class guy on the Upper West Side or Rupert Murdoch? Were we pursuing mere profit, or self-perpetuation, or something bigger?
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It's not the having, it's the getting.
