Melissa Auf der Maur Quotes

I don't like to be afraid. I'm afraid every day, all the time.

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• Produce great men, the rest follows.

  

  Walt Whitman
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• Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.

  

  Katarina Witt
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  • Woman
  • Look

• Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

  

  Jackie Chan
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• Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
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  • Doing

• I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.

  

  Jacki Weaver
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  • Very
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• Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Thought
  • Deserve
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• This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.

  

  Vince Gill
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  • Country
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• I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Want
  • Best
  • Look

• No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.

  

  Walter Salles
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  • Television
  • Brazil

• I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I'm totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Live
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• I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Water
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• In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
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• I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

  

  Aaron Stanford
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• I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Speak
  • Try
  • Just

• I've been lucky to learn by playing all kinds of roles and watching all kinds of really good cinematographers, actors, and directors for many years before people were even aware of me in terms of audience.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• If you don't feel comfortable in a plunging sweater, skin-tight jeans and killer heels, go home and change.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
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• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Business
  • Remember
  • Today

• There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.

  

  Gavin Hood
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  • Great
  • Bad

• The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Free
  • Day
  • Run

• I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
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• I don't have big time celebrity friends - I'm just a guy.

  

  Bill Engvall
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Guy

• Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet and Instagram, film clip and sound bite, as sporting event, investment opportunity, Tinder hookup, and interest rate--its value measured not by its texture or its substance but by the speed of its delivery, a distinction apparent to Andy Warhol when he supposedly said that any painting that takes longer than five minutes to make is a bad painting.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
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  • Good
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• I don't like to be afraid. I'm afraid every day, all the time.

  

  Melissa Auf der Maur
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