Booth Tarkington Quotes
He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.
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I like to wear shoes that are cool but also practical. The same goes for bags. Your bag is a big deal in New York. You can't just carry around a little clutch, because you don't have a car or anywhere to stash things during the day, so you need to carry your whole life with you. That's why I like big, chunky bags with lots of compartments.
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People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can use from wherever, and then I forget where I've taken it from. But there is no point me making anything that looks like anyone else's.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.
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Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.
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But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.
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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
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My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her.
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The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.
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Gloves make you so much more delicate.
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I'm not in the business of politics.
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The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.
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I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy.
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Oil wells never really run dry. A big company will drain maybe 40% of a field. Pulling out the rest of the oil, which requires an outlay of incrementally more cash per barrel, often proves uneconomical for big companies with big overheads.
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If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback.
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I'm pretty stubborn.
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One shouldn't get carried away by styling, as it can be a double-edged sword. The person should have it in him or her to carry it off.
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When we were children, we often played war. We had a fine collection of lead soldiers. My brothers would take different countries: Xavier had Italy; Pierre, Germany. Or they would swap around. Well, I, gentlemen, always had France.
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She found more gratification in teaching one willing student than a dozen resentful ones.
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She says 'Do I know you?' I say 'Well, no, not biblically,But I've been waiting for you to come and talk to me.I have been playing too many of those boy-girl games.'She says, 'Honey, you are safe here. This is a girl-girl thing.'
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He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.
