Martina Hingis Quotes
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like it's fun and they're involved and are just, like, friends hanging out in somebody's living room. I went to see Carole King on her 'Living Room' Tour, and that's the kind of feeling I'm aiming for.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale of the subway and the canal, sometimes it almost looks like a de Chirico painting, with the intense angles of the shadows and everything.
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The competition between me and Bill Gates, probably: Who can spend money more effectively that can do better philanthropy.
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Bridget Jones has a lot to answer for.
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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
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Gloves make you so much more delicate.
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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I am an academic, and I have always made it clear that my ultimate home is in the realm of ideas.
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I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.
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My husband perpetually makes fun of me about my creams and my jars and potions and lotions, but its simpler than anyone makes it: clean, tone, keep yourself moisturized. The rest is internal: Protect yourself from the sun and drink water.
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I usually spend Valentines Day with my friends. But if I did have a girlfriend, I'd bring her flowers and candy.
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My first girlfriend broke up with me on a yellow legal pad. After she picked me up from the airport one day, she took out a letter that her therapist wrote, and she read it to me. She and her therapists wrote a letter breaking up with me together.
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Unlike storybook heroes and heroines but like many actual heroes and heroines, she was something of a social outcast. (As Simone Weil noted, it was the people with irregular and embarrassing histories who were often the heroes of the Resistance in the Second World War; the proper middle-class people may have felt they had too much to lose.)
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She's here with her girlfriend. She's half a man.
