Drew Barrymore Quotes
My mother used to dress rather risque when I was a kid, and that sort of shocked me. I always thought moms were supposed to wear cardigans and flats, but she was in leather bracelets and minidresses. In hindsight, it was pretty cool, but I'm probably more conservative because of it.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
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The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.
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That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.
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On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'.
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If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.
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What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight suits have done is... created the circumstances under which Iraq can become our closest ally in that part of the world and still have a representative government. And that's going to be a very good thing considering what's going on in that neighborhood.
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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When you start a new project, you wonder whether it's the right choice.
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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
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I remember her as being a huge inspiration to me, someone to really look up to and admire.
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My mother used to dress rather risque when I was a kid, and that sort of shocked me. I always thought moms were supposed to wear cardigans and flats, but she was in leather bracelets and minidresses. In hindsight, it was pretty cool, but I'm probably more conservative because of it.
