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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If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone - perhaps not when unemployment is high, but certainly in normal times. Robust competition is a powerful force helping to ensure that workers are paid what they contribute to their employers' bottom lines.
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There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.
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I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others.
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I'd made enough money by the time I was 12 to never have to work again.
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A duel is just two murderers who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
