Paulina Porizkova Quotes
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I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
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Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'
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Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
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I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.
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Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.
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I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.
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My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.
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That's some fucking doorman you've got out there.
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In the larger scale of things, his opinions didn’t count anyhow. The politicians made the decisions, and the voters paid no attention.
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This volume was written for children. Miss Landon set out its purpose in the preface.
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Si yo diera la vida, ¿qué podría darte?
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I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me.
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I got sick of being famous. It is not a desirable 'job.'
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I did 'Philadelphia' and 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape?' at the same time. It's kind of wonderful to do it that way, because you get very hyper-focused.
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My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian.
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I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.
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I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.
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McGregor is a great fighter, and he is doing his job very well. He is very intelligent; he knows exactly what he is doing.
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I trained and trained and went up against Kurt, then being a world champion in '94, and after that I did Tommy's tour and then my tour and all this stuff and just trying to deal with it all. And now, I've just kind of backed off a little.
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All of my films have changed my life. I've met so many people and broadened my world view.
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I like to think I'm not a narcissist, but truth be told, we all have those sides to our character.
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I'm definitely a narcissist, and TV is fabulous for narcissists.
