Elizabeth Taylor Quotes
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Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's shameful stuff, and I don't know - people live their life like that, but I don't know how they look back and feel good about themselves.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.
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The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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You obviously want to start the season out with a big game and to follow it up by continuing to get better.
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I started singing backgrounds for Mary Mary and Usher during 'Confessions.' Then I jumped to working with Anthony Hamilton, Jill Scott; jumped again to Kanye West, The Killers. I kept saying, 'OK, this is the last time; then I get to do my music.'
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I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.
