Paz de la Huerta Quotes

I feel the popular music of a certain time really tells you a lot about what life was like in that period.

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• At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.

  

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• In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.

  

  Zadie Smith
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• I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

  

  Orson Welles
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• All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.

  

  Salman Khan
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• Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.

  

  Saad Hariri
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• You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
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• The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

  

  Edith Wharton
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• Men are every bit as gendered as women.

  

  Jackson Katz
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• There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

  

  Walt Disney
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• If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

  

  Quentin Crisp
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• There have been times when people who weren't my friends all of a sudden became my friend. I won't allow them to use me, but I have been pretty lucky to have friends who have supported me and who I have known since I was 12. They are still the same and they don't treat me any different.

  

  Lalaine Vergara-Paras
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• People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
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• I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.

  

  J. C. Watts
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• We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.

  

  Rafael Cruz
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• No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.

  

  Zainab Salbi
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• I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.

  

  Gary Larson
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• My thing was play as hard as you can, don't be stupid, pay attention to details, and have enough guts in the clutch that you're not afraid to make a play. Some things I thought were important for a young man to know.

  

  Joe Paterno
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• Now I get a very nice salary as a member of Congress, but when I'm in Washington, I sleep in my office.

  

  Jason Chaffetz
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• A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

  

  Jena Malone
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• A lot of times it's an asset to not know everything about everything... A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.

  

  Drew Houston
  • People
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• The music is first and foremost everything - no egos, no attitude, nothing - it's about the music.

  

  Big Boi
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• I feel the popular music of a certain time really tells you a lot about what life was like in that period.

  

  Paz de la Huerta
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