Dita Von Teese Quotes
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.
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Even if I did give a good talk, is what I have to say more important and interesting than what Colin Powell said?
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My confidence comes from me, not from Jon Jones. I can't draw my confidence from another person.
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A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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I want people to remember me as a guy who works hard.
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When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
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For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
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Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
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There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either you belong or you don't belong.
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When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.
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I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.
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Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.
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Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that.
Gail Devers -
All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.
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If I am writing down something and it is my idea, my imagination, it won't be fact.
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I had four combat tours, and I never saw death on a scale like I saw in Haiti. A quarter-million people lost their lives.
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There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.
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I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that.
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Anyone who says they don't like to receive a gift is lying.
