Gene Tierney Quotes
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
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I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.
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TweetDeck is a very interesting client, because it presents a view that no other client in the world presents, which is this multicolumn, massive amounts of information in one pane. And people really, really enjoy that.
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Education is a way of empowering people; it opens up so many doors and is fundamental to everybody. And teachers are not often appreciated in the way that they should be.
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The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
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The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.
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We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.
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In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.
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To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.
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I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh.
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I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.
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I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.
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Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.
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Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get it, it's kind of soul-destroying.
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I'm not a pundit. I don't want to be a pundit.
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A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
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A staple of my personality is that I want what I want - and I'm willing to do without until I get it.
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I have noticed when you get a bunch of dudes in a room together, and you just have one woman or two women, the dudes will bro out. And the woman won't get heard.
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When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.
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I used to make fun of the kids in school who acted or went to dance class.
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Our weaknesses are divine gifts that when embraced will enable us to make our purposeful contribution to the whole, which is why we incarnated in the first place.
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Wraiths! Wraiths on wings!
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Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.
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Some of Eminem's rap songs kind of have the teenage love songs like the fifties love songs. It's kind of like domestic drama set to music. He is really good storyteller.
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Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
