Billie Burke Quotes
But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain?
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
Barbara Jordan
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
Imogen Heap
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
Samuel Butler
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
Samuel Butler
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
Carl Sandburg
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
Haley Joel Osment
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
Daniel Bruhl
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
Jack Antonoff Fun.
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Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.
Dan Savage
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
Maggie Hassan
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A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.
Laura Benanti
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
Baruch Spinoza
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
A. J. P. Taylor
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
Rachel Cusk
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Marriage isn't something you agree to do one day, and if things don't go right, then it's over.
Faith Hill
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I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.
Jackie Mason
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I always wanted to be with a woman who has the same mindset and wants to look after me like my mum.
Gareth Gates
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Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.
John Dewey
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I swear to God, that movie comes up more in my life than any other movie. Someone says 'Bowfinger' once every month or two to me. And how many years ago did that come out?
Dave Franco
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I had some adventures at the White House, but hardly enough to fill a full memoir.
Christopher Buckley
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The letters I get on the Internet and the responses to my books make it very clear that something is trying to happen. And I'm just one person. There are millions of people really ready to go. We're just not sure where to go yet.
Marianne Williamson
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But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain?
Billie Burke