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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'Twilight' is a phenomenon. And I'm so happy it's all captured on film. It's going to be something I'll always look back on, for sure.
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The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.
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Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it's just about impossible to follow up with words. They don't have anything to do with each other.
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Home for me is wherever my wife and kid are.
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Supplementing the far, remote Glory-of-God expression in his face, the glory-of-doughnuts shone suddenly very warmly.
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Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
