Elsa Peretti Quotes
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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We have the ability to be able, if we have the right resources around us, to really do chop and change and have fun in our time and not just be stuck in one world or the other.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.
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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
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I've always watched the political shows.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
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No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future
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That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear borrowed clothes and turn up at premieres and talk about things I am passionate about. But then you click back to normality and your family and friends.
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I am actually really boring and I lead a quiet life. I love being at home, cooking for my boys, watching movies and I like nothing better than to go to bed early with a book.
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Having been away from competitive tennis for a while, I am looking forward immensely to getting back on the circuit ... I am looking forward to playing the Big Girls. People have had expectations from me even when I was 10 years old. I try to switch off but you are right, it isn't always easy to do that because the expectations are really mounting.
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I design for the working girl.
