Tilda Swinton Quotes
I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.
Quotes to Explore
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
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The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.
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I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
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When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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If there is one thing BP's 'watery improv act' made clear, it is that, as a culture, we have become far too willing to gamble with things that are precious and irreplaceable, and to do so without a back-up plan, without an exit strategy.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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I am happy in Paris.
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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
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I will always eat pizza! Always.
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My quilting is dookie. All needlepoint-related things I should do better on, being honest.
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Atheism is really nothing but a sorry litany of non-sequiturs, e.g., if God existed, why do we have all the evil and horrors in the world? But this presupposes that God is all-good, an obvious non-sequitur.
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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
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If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves.
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I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.
