Vanity Quotes
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
C. Z. Guest
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
Iain Glen
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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.
Taylor Swift
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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.
Nas
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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.
Naomi Klein
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But I think we need the international market.
Zhang Yimou
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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.
Olivia Thirlby
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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.
Dan Hicks
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I continued to suffer from anxiety and obsessive thoughts, although the thoughts stopped centering on hell. I moved into an ashram called the Himalayan Institute after college and studied meditation, which made an enormous difference.
Maggie Rowe
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I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
Ovid
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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.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.
Talulah Riley
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Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Pablo Picasso
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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.
Aaron Sorkin
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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.
Calamity Jane
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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.
Patrice O'Neal
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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.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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You have a billion people who know 'Tribbles' and only half a million who know my novel 'The Man Who Folded Himself,' which is one of my better-known books.
David Gerrold
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The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.
P. D. James
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In a chaotic world, U.S. diplomats will probably have even less contact with the people they need to reach.
David Ignatius
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I used to love Danish. My father used to make a Boston cream pie. You never see that anymore.
Christopher Walken
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
Erica Jong
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Vanitas vanitatum, dixit Ecclesiastes, vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas.
Vanity