Elizabeth Taylor Quotes
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With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours.
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I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
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Los Angeles County is one of the most park-poor urban areas in the nation, and the San Gabriel Valley - stretching from Pasadena to Pomona - is especially starved for open space.
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When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
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I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.
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I have so many gay friends that I love.
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I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files.
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I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.
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You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself.
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Modern morality is all about perception.
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If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was more involved.
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I try to shield my children as far as possible from the public glare. I want them to have a normal childhood like we had. We went to school by the school bus, had school food... There was no special treatment given to us. The same applies to my children as well.
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People are more important than things.'
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The motto of his Robinson Jeffers’s work is 'More! More!'-but as Tolstoy says, 'A wee bit omitted, overemphasized, or exaggerated in poetry, and there is no contagion'; and Frost, bearing him out, says magnificently: 'A very little of anything goes a long way in a work of art.'
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You are so funny to ask me about 'The Look'. I've been asked many times, and I really am not sure what anyone means.
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At one point the driver said, 'For God's sakes, you're rocking the boat back there.' Actually we were; the car was swaying as Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank tranced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives.
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The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
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At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news.
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Farmed animals are not future Buddhas donating their flesh out of compassion for those of us who have developed a craving for it. They are victims of our greed from whom we steal the most precious gift any of us has: life.
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Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
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The purpose of human life is the dissolution of the soul and the revelation of the Spirit.
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Until government administrators can so identify the interests of government with those of the people and refrain from defrauding the masses through the device of currency depreciation for the sake of remaining in office, the wiser ones will prefer to keep as much of their wealth in the most stable and marketable forms possible - forms which only the precious metals provide.
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I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.
