Caitlin Doughty Quotes
Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.
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Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
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If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.
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I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.
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Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.
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I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm, and on top of it I can put The Rolling Stones' feeling, anyone's feeling on top. Nobody has ever done this before, man.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to parlay that into films. God willing, I'll be up there in a few years.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
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I don't rehearse with my actors... the first rehearsal is the first time we turn the camera on... Sydney Pollack never rehearsed his actors, and I found out that's allowed... so you film reactions; you don't create them.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
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If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.
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I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.
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A mother will come up to me and say, 'Will you meet my son? He loves you. He watched 'How to Train Your Dragon' a thousand times.'
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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Technically, I've learned that having good legs and wind is good for being on stage. You have to be in shape and have endurance.
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Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
