Karen Blixen Quotes
Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.
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The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
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We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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I don't like to direct myself.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
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We have to be very careful about what we say out there to the masses in the entertainment industry because people are listening to every word, and they take it to heart.
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We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited.
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The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
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Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.
