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.
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All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.
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My mother worked in advertising and my father was a journalist. But they split up when I was three and I grew up in a single-parent family. My mum brought my brother and I up.
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When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?
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Everyone I have lost in the closing of a door the click of the lock is not forgotten, they do not die but remain within the soft edges of the earth, the ash of house fires and cancer in sin and forgiveness huddled under old blankets dreaming their way into my hands, my heart closing tight like fists. - "Indian Boy Love Song #1
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My toes are all squished. During an operation, they had to take nerves out.
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If you create a good story that has a lot of story value I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.
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Anyone who says they don't like to receive a gift is lying.
