Djuna Barnes Quotes
If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class. It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for - or ignored.
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There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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I'm very conscious of... I don't feel like a star.
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To be among the world's greatest athletes and compete for Team U.S.A. while knowing that the entire world is watching is something that athletes dream about. To be able to experience that was truly special.
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Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.
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Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.
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One of the sad things about retiring is that you just become increasingly irrelevant. The world flows around you, and you don't seem to be impacting it any longer.
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Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting.
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One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago.
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I always liked Darth Vader. I remember, when I was a kid, I went to the toy store for the Darth Vader pencil case. I took that to school for years.
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If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class. It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for - or ignored.
