Joan Crawford Quotes
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
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If you will be the best that you can be right where you are, God will promote you and give you more.
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
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My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.
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Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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Bullies always have another target.
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Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
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I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.
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My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine.
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The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican.
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As a mother you have got to have a view for now and a view for the future.
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I've had good friends who got married after they've been together for years and they've said that it was the "next step" for them. Or, they've said, "You just can't bail out anymore." And I've wondered, What made you think you could just bail out before the wedding? You don't invest that kind of time and energy with somebody and then just go, "All right, see you later."
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I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.
