Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes
The habits of study in which I have been brought up have done much to support me. I never allow myself to be one moment unoccupied.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I don't be remembering women that I've met before. I don't remember people as a whole. It's crazy. A lot of times, people get in their feelings, like, 'You don't remember me?!'
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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When I was growing up, my dad was away a lot. He did a lot of work in crisis zones, places like Uganda or Rwanda.
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You hold the pen like a needle in a seismic observatory, and in fact it is not we who write, but rather we are written. Writing means to read oneself
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I firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.
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The habits of study in which I have been brought up have done much to support me. I never allow myself to be one moment unoccupied.
