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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I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing to do to another person. And anytime I have done it, even in the disguise of fiction, the results have been horrific.
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I call white the most powerful non-color; it's clean, optimistic, powerful.
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Kennedy's assassination was the opening salvo in the social revolution of the sixties. In some ways, perhaps, Princess Diana and Mother Teresa dying when they did, and how they did, represent the opening salvos of a social revolution in the nineties.
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I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.
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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.
