Julia Child (Julia Carolyn Child) Quotes
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I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.
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In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.
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I don't like the idea of spirituality done the way it's done. The only way I could understand it was through creativity, not by going to an Ashram, or finding a guru or joining a temple. I made work out of it.
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Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.
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I'm not the girl for super high fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.
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Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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I have the idea that anyone who has ever heard my name has the distinct impression that I was put under the sod years ago just before they buried Lillian Russell.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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I loved the challenge of being able to take a character who could be thrown away as 'crazy' and making her identifiable to the audience - also, to give her a vulnerability that people would cheer for.
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My family understands the pain of struggling with a loved one who's suffering from a blood-related cancer, and we seek to support those who are working to find a cure.
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I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.
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The situation in Syria is quite different from Libya.
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I don't think a lot of bands and artists work as hard as we do on the creation, on the writing, the arrangements and the recording in our format.
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I don't have to get married myself in order to campaign on behalf of gay marriage.
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When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.
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I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish.
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All have used the economic opportunity of a new arena project to transform their cities into the future.
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The one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.
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Science should be taught not in order to support religion and not in order to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply ignoring religion.
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I was looking for a name like the Crickets that meant two things, and from crickets I got to beetles. And I changed to B E A because … B E E T L E S didn't mean two things, so I changed … the E to an A. And it meant two things then. … When you said it, people thought of crawly things; and when you read it, it was beat music.
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Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
