John James Audubon Quotes
Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their avocations as if you were a member of the family.
Quotes to Explore
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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You have to be yourself.
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I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
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At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.
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I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!
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I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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The hip hop industry is most likely owned by gays. I happen to think there's a gay mafia in hip hop. Not rappers - the editorial presidents of magazines, the PDs at radio stations, the people who give you awards at award shows.
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There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He's so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set.
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My writing life has included the struggle to bring up three children. What I do three or four times a year is take myself off to a hotel room to unblock a problem.
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I was reading a lot of Jacques Derrida at the time, writing 'Beth.' He actually talked about zombies.
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People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried.
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Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.
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All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.
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Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their avocations as if you were a member of the family.
