Joan Didion Quotes
Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.
Joan Didion
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
Taylour Paige
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I had 45 amateur fights, and I was able to win two national titles in those three years as an amateur.
Canelo Alvarez
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
e. e. cummings
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
Ovid
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
Jack Nicholson
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
J. G. Ballard
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In total, I have spent 35 years at Hokkaido University as a staff member - 2 and a half in the Faculty of Science, and the other 32 and a half in the Faculty of Engineering. Other than about two years of study in America and a few months in other places overseas, most of my life has been spent at the Faculty of Engineering.
Akira Suzuki
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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
Plato
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I've never given a damn. A seven-foot man who dresses as a woman as a job is not interested in what other people think.
Kristian Nairn
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The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense activity of his work or in the restful equipoise of his forces, is powerful, involuntarily and composedly powerful, but he is not avid for power. What he is avid for is the realization of what he has in mind, the incarnation of the spirit.
Martin Buber
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I think one of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.
John Roy Anderson
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Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.
Joan Didion
