Vanity Quotes
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.
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I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
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I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.
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I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.
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Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
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It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.
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I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the shooting and found that my friend had been killed by McCall.
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I'm a big buffet dude, or I'm a big cheap-food-and-order-more-when-I-need-it dude.
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In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist.
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A spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny; if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.
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The best reason for a knitter to marry is that you can't teach the cat to be impressed when you finish a lace scarf.
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I think I'm better wired for television. I love variety as far as a project. I'm easily bored and the schedule of a television show, it just keeps you going.
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Contrast is the dramatist's method.
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Who we are, not just the services and products we provide, creates money.
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Vanitas vanitatum, dixit Ecclesiastes, vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas.
