Joan Didion Quotes
Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.Joan Didion
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You cannot do only one thing.
Garrett Hardin -
I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
Victoria Justice -
Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
Viggo Mortensen -
One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
Babasaheb -
I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
Lana Del Rey -
I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.
Ian Williams Battles
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
Karl Rove -
I don't know who Little Richard is.
Bar Refaeli -
Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
Aaron Staton -
It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
O. Henry -
I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
Karen Elson -
I am myself of a mixed background.
Quiara Alegria Hudes
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I like to do my own make-up.
Kate Winslet -
This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
I just do these 'Sleep' type tracks when the situation presents itself. I never set out to do them, like wait all day until I'm really tired or something. Gotta come natural.
Aaron Funk -
Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.
Zoe Lister-Jones -
We're seeing a reaction - and people taking to the streets with pots and pans - in areas where the independence movement isn't supposed to exist. People have to choose between one model and another. Everyone in Catalonia has realised that not taking part means ratifying the politics of repression of the Spanish government.
Carles Puigdemont -
I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.
Xavier Niel
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Prospering just doesn't have to do with money.
Joel Osteen -
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
Salman Rushdie -
At some point, all black movies became biopics. All the good, serious ones became biopics. 'Ray,' 'Ali'... those types of movies, those are the opportunities available for mostly men. Those are the opportunities for a black actor to transcend 'black' movies. They have to play a black icon.
Martine Syms -
I don't want to look old and worn, but what can you do? My real focus is being an actor. I care more about having the opportunity to play roles that I haven't played than I care if my neck looks like someone's bedroom curtains.
Sally Field -
I grew up a very open and free mind, but also with the flaws of a look on life with too much liberty than people normally have.
Adriano Giannini -
Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.
Joan Didion