Billy Wilder Quotes
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I'm an artist at heart.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.
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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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I'm a country girl at heart. I think an old-school Western would kind of be really up my alley and would be so fun. I'm so comfortable in that genre and around horses.
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There is no such thing as women's intuition. You all just have crap poker faces.
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I'm a believer in paying your dues.
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A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.
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President Obama has a good sense not just of the economic requisites for financial crisis firefighting but also how you build political support for moving forward on reforming the financial system, making sure that the banks are carrying enough capital.
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We need to create an ecosystem which will make young people want to start their own company.
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If there's a 13- or 14-year old kid who is yearning for something beyond the social forces in his own world, in his own neighborhood, the library is the only place where he can go to find that. It was exciting and thrilling to me all the time I worked in the library. It's such a force for social good and it can do so much.
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I'm a beauty guru, I just love all of that stuff. We have a makeup artist for 'Dance Moms' that touches us up and stuff, but I love doing my own makeup; sometimes I do my friends', too. My favorite is doing eye shadow and eyeliner.
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As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.
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Cybernated art is very important, but art for cybernated life is
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The hijab has nothing to do with moral values. A woman's moral values are reflected in her eyes, in the way she talks, and in the way she walks. They put on a hijab and go dancing, wearing high heels and lipstick. They wear tight jeans that show their bellies.
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'Technology is dangerous.''How do you mean?''It can provide horrendous weapons to idiots.'
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Perspective is nothing more than a rational demonstration applied to the consideration of how objects in front of the eye transmit their image to it, by means of a pyramid of lines. The Pyramid is the name I apply to the lines which, starting from the surface and edges of each object, converge from a distance and meet in a single point.
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You know the only rule you need to know to get on in this country? ‘Never complain, never explain.
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We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans.
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Someone has to be the villain. I'm the most villainized player right now. People don't like me.
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I don't really see huge barriers between any styles of music.
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Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
