Elizabeth Taylor Quotes
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My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I was a tomboy.
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a distributor who is super confident and puts a lot of money into it, sometimes movies can go unwatched or unnoticed.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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The market for local advertising is in the billions.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.
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A closed mind is a dying mind.
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
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Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
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You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
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I call this The Dictator Syndrome. You see suffering or danger, and in your imagination you see a government program eliminating it. But in the real world the program would operate as you expect only if you were an absolute dictator-having at your disposal all the government's power to compel everyone to do things your way.
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Fame comes and fame goes, but you have to be able to laugh about yourself and to take it with a grain of salt.
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I used to go to the US Open on my birthdays and sit in the nosebleeds.
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I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.
