Jerry Della Femina Quotes
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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Only 10 percent of the people in the U.S. like dry wines. You shouldn't get down on people just because they like a little sugar.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.
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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
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I always like to preserve my freedom. I've never really been attached to any place; that's probably why I kept moving. I like to evolve.
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Ooo remember, baby, how you made me feel just like a king?Ah, I've been waitingI'm ready for you to start doin' the thingsSo I'll know you're mine.You're so fine, so petite, oh candy sweet.Ah, I've been waiting.Come here, baby, get to this.
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My mindset is always to be victorious, to win the match.
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Now it seems like people want to do damage to young celebrities. They want to find them doing bad things. They encourage them.
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That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a bad motive for action, keep well your repining - meaning, don't ignore the honest muttering in your head.
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The Hamptons are filled with people who are winners Monday through Friday.
