Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes
A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.
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Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.
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If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
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E-mail, when it became mobile - what happened? Utilization of email went through the roof. Just pure Internet access and data - what happens when you mobilize it? Multiples. People are dependent upon broadband and as you mobilize it, they become even more dependent on broadband.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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I like the MAC Face and Body foundation. Sometimes it can't cover all my flaws, but I like it because it looks really natural and it evens out my skin tone.
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My college friends call me Karu, which is the worst. Only in our country can we make a short form for a short name. But otherwise, I've never had a pet name all my life. But now, in official meetings, someone will call me KJo. And I'll judge that person in my head. Just call me Karan.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Nothing fires me up like losing. It certainly makes you want to go that extra bit.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.
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My childhood dream was to study mechanical engineering. After reading 'The Mysterious Island' - which I read 25 times as a boy - I thought that was the best thing a person could do. The engineer in the book knows mechanics and physics, and he creates a whole way of life on the island out of nothing. I wanted to be like that.
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Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
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Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.
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The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
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Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.
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When a woman falls in love with me, I feel guilty. I am convinced that it's pure obstinacy that keeps me from reciprocating her passion. As I explain to her that I'm gay, it sounds, even to me, like a silly excuse; I scarcely believe it myself.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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I find human beings to be so complex and full of beauty. Creativity is our way to express and challenge and flow. So, all you humans, create and flow! I'll be over here thinking you are beautiful and creepy and freaky and wonderful!
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Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.
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A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.
