Marlene Dietrich Quotes
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I waited for my first kiss.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.
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Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.
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Chinese combatants, men and women, inheritors of a millennial culture, are people of uncommon intelligence and an invincible spirit of struggle.
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I never really considered writing something that was nonfiction.
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Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anymore, they just want to be told something. Until these great things started happening with us, I'd really given up on reaching people like that.
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I just wanted to say hi to Pittsburgh as well because I miss it.
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I kept my head; I mean, I've never been one of those people who ended up in the gutter with sick in my hair.
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When I was about 14, my family emigrated from England to Australia, and we decided to stop in Bali on the way through.
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Oh, Brignal banks are wild and fair,And Greta woods are green,And you may gather garlands thereWould grace a summer's queen.
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I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.
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Today, the culture can hardly, if at all, reflect the society in which people live.
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Those who know do not speak; Those who speak do not know. Stop up the openings, Close down the doors, Rub off the sharp edges. Unravel all confusion. Harmonize the light, Give up contention: This is called finding the unity of life.
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They want you to bring out your intestines.
