Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes
Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
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I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.
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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.
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I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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It was a bit unimaginable when I began that I'd ever get to 25 books. But it was also unimaginable how much crime-writing would have changed.
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You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.
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No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state.
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Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.
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I spoke with Abramovich. He is very simple and loves football. We were on the same wavelength: he wants to confirm Chelsea's position at the top.
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When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even if it goes well for you in life, you can never attain that freedom in your imagination of what you think life could be. We are tainted.
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Art is art, and journalism is journalism.
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When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
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Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.
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Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.
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Jesse has a new dog. You may have noticed that his former pets have been peculiarly unfortunate. When this dog dies every employee in the White House will be at once discharged.
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Some guys can run fast, some guys can sing, I found I could take photographs that people were interested in.
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Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.
