Vanity Quotes
It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is 'lighter than vanity.'
Quotes to Explore
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
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When I was younger, I went through a phase when I didn't like my hair. Because the school I went to was primarily Caucasian, there wasn't anyone who had my hair texture. I remember one day I straightened my hair, and that was the first day that people gave me compliments on it.
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The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.
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I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I've got to make it.
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When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.
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I lull them into a false sense of security by watching me pitch... If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
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I'm pretty casual, but I'm starting to obsess a little bit; like, one of my favorite things to do is to pair really feminine accessories with edgier outfits or vice versa.
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I've always been a Nike person.
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I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.
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We just kept going down the road, we kept trying to make the next record, the right choices to get there.
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I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.
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I was filled with hate and anger. But during my trial, something decisive happened: Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and it was an unbelievable feeling to know that there is someone fighting for you on the outside. Amnesty's 'soft' approach made me seriously consider alternatives to revenge.
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I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.
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MS Paint was my creative outlet for many years.
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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is 'lighter than vanity.'
