Elizabeth Taylor Quotes
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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I try to eat healthy. But sometimes, though, I eat cheeseburgers. That's good for the soul. I make sure to balance everything out. I drink tons of water.
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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I don't really know if I'm writing the kind of roles that Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore would play. Jessica Lange on 'American Horror Story' is a little bit more my cup of tea.
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To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
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At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.
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I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one of my heroes. Al Green, too.
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This is a very big victory for Michael and we are all very proud that he has been completely and totally vindicated in court, as we were certain he would be.
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We're all trying to be Beyonce and Sheryl Sandberg at the same time.
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It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
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I feel like some sort of fiction-writing hobo, jumping trains and always hoping I'll find a good place to start a fire in the next town. And I keep having these panicky episodes where I corner my husband and rant at him: 'I don't have anywhere to write! I can't write! I don't have a place to write!'
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Malala is a brave and gentle advocate of peace who through the simple act of going to school became a global teacher. She said one pen can change the world - and proved how one young woman can lead the way.
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The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color line indefinitely without discouragement and retrogression. And the condition of the Negro is ever the cause for further discrimination.
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Respect only has meaning as respect for those with whom I do not agree.
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The Amendment nullifies sophisticated as well as simple-minded modes of discrimination.
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Come ne l'alto mar legno talora,Che da duo venti sia percosso e vinto,Ch'ora uno inanzi l'ha mandato, ed oraUn altro al primo termine respinto,E l'han girato da poppa e da prora.
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In television there are only about 12 people who do what I do.
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I've been lucky to play characters that are really broad.
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The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior.
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Successful people are usually more lively than those who are unsuccessful. The quickening of the spirit they feel comes out of their creativity, and success detaches them from the more rigid outlook on life - it puts them in the flow. So the shakers and movers, by their very nature, are moving faster, taking more risks, and investing more in the world than their less active counterparts.
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There are so many young women who throw their talent away.
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I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.
