Geoffrey Beene Quotes
The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.
Geoffrey Beene
Quotes to Explore
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
Edmund Morgan
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
Mahatma Gandhi
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
Faye Dunaway
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I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
Ulysses S. Grant
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At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.
I. King Jordan
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
Vanessa Paradis
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I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
Ferran Adria
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I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.
Vijay Singh
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It takes people a while to trust you.
Karl Malone
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Ron, we're supposed to show the first years where to go!" "Oh yeah," said Ron, who had obviously forgotten. "Hey -- hey you lot! Midgets!
Joanne Rowling
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
Baruch Spinoza
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I think God has me on a path. I think he puts certain people in my life, and angels send messages to me, like, Kanye, I want you to say this, and I want you to say that, and I want you to talk to this girl here, and I don't want you to do this over here.
Kanye West
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In 1974, the modeling world changed. Jerry Ford and my lawyer negotiated the deal for the first exclusive contract in modeling history.
Lauren Hutton
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
Matthew Arnold
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The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.
Geoffrey Beene