Lana Del Rey Quotes
When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.
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I don't believe in one ideal beauty.
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Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In the West, if you speak to yourself out loud all day long, you are considered crazy. But speaking to yourself silently - thinking incessantly - is considered perfectly normal.
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I believe politicians should always remain realistic.
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But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.
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When I have a bad day, I dream about opening up a gelato stand on the streets of Sydney, Australia. Doesn't everyone have a random escape fantasy?
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I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.
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I never got hurt when I was in Morocco doing all the horse riding and my own stunts. But on the last day on the last shot I slid off my horse and landed on my bottom. I did not get hurt but it was very embarrassing.
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I like to dress up every day, so I think fashion is an everyday process.
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I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.
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But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
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My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.
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I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.
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Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.
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I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.
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Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
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I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.
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My father and my mother separated when I was two.
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If I have a bad shooting day, my dad will take me to the gym.
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All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.
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No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
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I've never judged anybody by how they look or how they dress. I basically judge them on their character. And that's how I lead my own life.
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When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.
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Faites que l'on vous craigne, et je ne craindrai rien.
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When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.
