John Tenniel Quotes
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To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.
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You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
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I am so, so lucky. I am the luckiest girl in the world, really. And still with access to everything I could possibly want I still say 'Oh dear, what am I going to wear today?' There's no ending to that question!
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Where do you get lumpy tiles? Well, of course, you don't. But I get a lot of toilets, and so you just dispatch a toilet with a hammer, and then you have lumpy tiles.
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Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
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Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?
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And then, one by one, they came onto the screen late in the day to pontificate about how we were going into a moral sewer. How this image of a breast at a family halftime show was not only disgusting, it was disturbing, it was shocking, it was indecent. I thought 'Uh, it's just a tit. And none of those adjectives really fucking apply.'
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I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.
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I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
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The nine Wise Words are full of wisdom, besides being decidedly funny.
