Abraham Polonsky Quotes
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Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
Karen Bender -
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
F. H. Bradley -
Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
Naomi Klein -
I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
Rachel Bloom -
Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
Gail Simmons -
You must be independent and able to do for yourself. Then you do not have to marry a rich man; you can marry a poor one. And if it is wrong, you can go.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
Ian Hacking -
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
Natalie Clifford Barney -
A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
E. W. Howe -
There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
E. V. Lucas -
One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.
Caitlin Moran -
When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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Life's a challenge, but that's the best part.
Venus Williams -
Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
Wendy Kopp -
When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
Harold Kushner -
My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
Viktor Vekselberg -
Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.
Zhang Ziyi -
I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
Lady Gaga
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Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.
Ja Rule -
When I'm wearing too-high heels and swaying my hips, I do that Sharon Stone kind of thing - she has the sexiest walk, a New York cool thing that throws you back.
Queen Latifah -
Abraham Lincoln once said, 'All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my mother.' I'm not sure I want to say it quite like that, but my mother, Sonya Carson, was the earliest, strongest, and most impacting force in my life. It would be impossible to tell about my accomplishments without starting with my mother's influence.
Ben Carson -
We came out flat in the third quarter. I think we thought it was OK to play them a good half.
Kenny Johnson -
You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
Abraham Polonsky