Ernest Dimnet Quotes
Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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Unfortunately, I'm very accident-prone.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
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Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.
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I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.
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Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.
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Yum-O! I say this if something is so good that 'yum' just isn't enough of an exclamation. The accent is on the 'O' as in, 'Oh! That is so good!'
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I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now.
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Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.
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There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders.
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Nothing is yet in its true form.
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How we live our lives in the Western world has impacts on the rest of the world.
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Life is full of challenges and surprises.
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Goals are what count for me. It's not about a battle with defenders. Fighting hard, giving everything and working hard on the field you have to combine with the goals you score. It doesn't matter if defenders want to battle with me or not; I will just be trying to do my job as well as I possibly can.
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Adopting this lifestyle and opting to exercise has helped me a lot in life.
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I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
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I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.
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Through the Thou a person becomes I.
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When I was a little girl, I was a real, drippy bookworm. But when I went into fashion, I stopped reading.
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I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, Another box arrived! Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.
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Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name.
