Brooke Astor Quotes
I love the Park. I like to walk on the East River, too, up at Gracie Square, but Central Park is my favorite part of the city.
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All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
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We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
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Spare no expense to save money on this one.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
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I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
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As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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When you run for president, and become president, they just rip you apart. Every facade of privacy that you have is gone. I think everybody believes that, to some extent, you can maintain privacy. And I think in the end, everybody gets proven wrong.
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One has to understand the functioning of the normal brain before studying the badly malfunctioning brain.
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I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.
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I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy.
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Every animated film that I've worked on - whether it was as a story artist or as Head of Story or even as director - where we originally started out with our story and where we eventually ended up were often very different places.
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I love the Park. I like to walk on the East River, too, up at Gracie Square, but Central Park is my favorite part of the city.
