Mary Quant Quotes
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I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.
B. D. Wong -
Everyone will be happier if fewer women are tied to abusive men, drop out of school, and live impoverished lives because of a random pregnancy.
Katha Pollitt -
I'm a huge fan of Taio Cruz. I'm really liking what he's doing at the moment. I'd love to do something with him.
Flo Rida -
You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.
Nancy Grace -
'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
J. R. Smith -
Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster
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My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.
Yves Chauvin -
Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.
Pamela Adlon -
Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.
Wendell Pierce -
I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.
Victoria Principal -
The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
Victoria Osteen
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
LaToya Jackson -
It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
Umberto Eco -
What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
Iggy Pop -
The thing about Memphis is that it's pleasingly off-kilter. It's a great big whack job of a city. The anti-Atlanta. You go there, and you can't believe the things people will say, the way they think, the wobbling orbits of their lives. There's an essential otherness.
Hampton Sides -
When moms stayed home, it was easier just to let the kids play around the house. But as women entered the workplace and the extended family dissolved, someone else had to pick up the slack on the child-care front. Extracurricular activities fit the bill perfectly, promising not only supervision but also enrichment.
Carl Honore -
The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.
Karl Liebknecht
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You should just feel comfortable with food and your own culinary culture, whatever your mother and grandmother know.
Lidia Bastianich -
Talking about peoples lived experiences is a powerful way to mobilize them. We can create new rules.
Celinda Lake -
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
Pythagoras -
The love and passion I had for the game was my key. I never had that taken out of me by my parents or a silly coach.
Bobby Orr -
A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.
Oscar Wilde -
Eating outdoors is a particular passion - that is, eating trestle-table a la nicoise.
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