Donna Rice Quotes
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
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Just as I try to find ways to be more productive every year for myself, I also look for tips to pass on to young professionals.
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Every girl has days when she doesn't like her appearance, but it's when you feel happy in yourself that you look good.
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There are no major cities I haven't been in - at least once. I'd be just as happy not to go out of town for a couple of months and play with toys.
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Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs.
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And to the faithful: death, the gate of life.
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Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill.
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
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After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.
