Gene Tierney Quotes
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The American dream is about freedom.
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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Anything you're interested in the world - whether it be Charlie Rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop - they're on Twitter and broadcasting what is interesting to them.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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I'm the best Twitterer.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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The liberals will surely argue that every person has the right to fall in love with no regard to religion, creed or gender, but I am not that liberal.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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Multinationals are more sensitive to public pressure because they have bigger brand names, and they have made commitments to be environmentally sensitive. Chinese firms are not used to this kind of pressure yet.
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I guess taking a stand is valid for a commentator. But that's not what I am.
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There are lots of people whose style I admire, although I'd never dress like them. Chloe Sevigny is probably the most stylish woman ever, and Lady Gaga is amazing - it's fun to watch what she's going to wear next.
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I think that when voters react negatively to trade and investment, they are really expressing their angst about the pace of technological change.
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More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
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If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
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I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.
