Bret Easton Ellis Quotes

When I was bullied: you manned-up. You learned something. You realized: I'm not getting the gold star. You realized: you lose. Deal with it.

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• Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
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  • Understand
  • Gold

• If you are a girl dressing up in the morning thinking about the whole world having a point of view on what you are wearing, it takes the pleasure out of getting dressed.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
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  • World
  • Thinking

• My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

  

  Edmond Rostand
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  • Sincerity
  • Pessimism

• I use SPF every day, then apply foundation, mascara, eyeliner and blusher. I always take my make-up off at night and moisturize.

  

  Felicity Jones
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  • Night
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• I'm not a good rapper. For whatever reason, my brain does not work that way. I just do the beginning, like, 'Yeah, yeah! Ha ha! Woo! What up? Come on! Get at me!' I'm Captain Hook.

  

  Adam DeVine
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  • Good
  • Work

• As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
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  • Freedom
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• Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
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  • Important
  • Heart

• When the dollar was separated entirely from gold in 1971, it ceased being the official IMF world currency and finally had to compete with other currencies... From that point forward, its value increasingly became discounted.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
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• There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.

  

  Felicity Jones
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  • Play
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• Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.

  

  Queen Latifah
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• Every four weeks I go up a bra size... it's worth being pregnant just for the breasts.

  

  Natasha Hamilton
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  • Being
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• Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.

  

  Halima Aden
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  • Girl
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• But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

  

  Fiona Apple
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• I grew up believing that my parents helped change the world. I was so in awe of them, and I wondered how I could measure up. I mean, how do you change the world - again?

  

  Tananarive Due
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• On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.

  

  Gary Oldman
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• The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
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• It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.

  

  O. Henry
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  • Happy
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• I like the two worlds coming together in the Internet space, which is so up for grabs... It all struck me when I heard about Twitter and Instagram, how it's like notes you pass in class. If someone's passing you a note, you really should be doing something else, and instead you're like, oh, 'What are you doing?'

  

  Parker Posey
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• The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
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• Clark Kent, I suppose, had a little bit of Harold Lloyd in him.

  

  Joe Shuster

• But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!

  

  Charles Eastman
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  • Friend

• I hate having my photograph taken.

  

  E. L. James
  • Hate
  • Taken
  • Photograph

• It's really about schools and education. It really is about being America's safest city. I think that race is always bubbling somewhere and sometimes it does surface, but I don't think that the majority of the voters are going to pick a mayor or a candidate based solely on race.

  

  Carl Stokes
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  • America
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• When I was bullied: you manned-up. You learned something. You realized: I'm not getting the gold star. You realized: you lose. Deal with it.

  

  Bret Easton Ellis
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