Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I realize that things happen for a reason.
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When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
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Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I guess I crave stability.
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In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
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I decided to be heterosexual because I felt like that's the life God intended me to live.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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Some things that I write, you'll see a page with cartoon pictures or a drawing of a car - like a Ford - or a flag. I still do it on an occasion when a word is strange to me.
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Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.
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The way we experience the world around us is a direct reflection of the world within us.
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Kenny Burrell that's the sound I'm looking for.
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A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
