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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In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.
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I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.
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My favourite sites are all about web accessiblity, like Jakob Nielsen's site, but I'm afraid I've got quite utilitarian in my uses of the web. I buy things for friends and family in America on it. I find train times on it. I get a quick short article on a subject from it. I do not surf for fun much.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
