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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I like to be out of my depth - that's when I learn the most.
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EMILY's List has worked a lot with swing women voters over the years, and one thing we've learned is that they are very cynical about politics and politicians. They very much want help with the challenges facing them and their families, and they feel like most politicians don't understand or want to lift a finger to help them out.
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Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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Anyone who says they don't like to receive a gift is lying.