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 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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I try to tell a story that's good enough to win the right to integrate eternal themes into it. If it's poorly written or comes across as a sermon, then obviously you don't reach people, because they're aware that you're imposing something on a story that isn't innate to it.
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Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
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I want to call him right now and tell him about it. It's an honor.
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Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is why football is just about the most democratic sport of all: African and Brazilian footballers compete on a level playing field with their rich white European counterparts.
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In April 1975 I was born and the Vietnam War ended. I could not let any American die in war before seeing an episode of Scrubs.
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The secret of showmanship consists not of what you really do, but what the mystery-loving public thinks you do.
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It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is 'lighter than vanity.'
