Jerry Della Femina Quotes
The establishment can't change. It can't give people anything different; it can't make the turn.
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.
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Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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I've been training quite hard.
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This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.
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I'm definitely a romantic, I don't think life is really worth all the pain and effort and struggling if you don't have somebody that you love very much
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I don't want to be one of those people that complains about the rumours. I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, "This isn't true!" It is what it is, I tend not to do that. The only time it gets really annoying is that if you get into a relationship and you get into a place where you really like someone and then things are being written in the papers that affect them and how they see you. Then it can get annoying.
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I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.
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I bought a Hummer before I bought a house, and then I bought a house. Every year, everything doubled. The work was doubling. The money was doubling. The popularity was doubling.
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The establishment can't change. It can't give people anything different; it can't make the turn.
