Edith Sitwell Quotes
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A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
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Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.
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The first view of the Earth is magical. It is a very overpowering realization that the Earth is so small. It affected me. I could not get over the notion that in such a small planet, with such a small ribbon of life, so much goes on. It is as if the whole place is sacred.
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I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.
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I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.
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I'm not sure that you can say definitively that some roles are better filled by consultants, but I would say that some projects are better handled by consultants.
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The ideal way to start interesting research, at least in my view, is to depart from a problem or question to which you do not know the answer.
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My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
