Paul Mellon Quotes
There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.
Quotes to Explore
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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I was on a series for a number of years, and I got very used to only doing a mini-play per week. When I first came back to the theater, and I was suddenly doing eight shows a week again for three or four months, I had to find a new reason to do it.
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Ultimately, in the long run we need to immunise our system from being overly responsive to fluctuations in the exchange rate; that is, people should, by and large, be reasonably hedged, or they should borrow more in domestic currency rather than foreign currency.
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I'm very unpopular for my dislike of this food, but I've never liked avocado. Everyone gives me so much flack for it because they tell me how healthy it is for me, how delicious it is. I don't like it, but it's not for lack of trying. I tried to like it, and it's just not my thing.
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I eat healthy and don't even get on a scale. I have my favorite jeans that I wear, and if they are getting too snug, I watch what I eat for a week.
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As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.
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I believe that women should be treated just like men.
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Having been a journalist for almost 20 years and then becoming a politician has definitely been an interesting and enriching experience for me.
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An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.
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Un magnanimo cor morte non prezza,Presta o tarda che sia, pur che ben muora.
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A racist and misogynist should not be a president in 21st-century America.
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When I first asked my boxing coach, two-time Olympic champion Hector Vinent, what made the Cuban style of fighting distinct from the rest of the world, he smiled and told me to sit on a bench in Prado and watch the Cuban women walk.
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The only thing scarier than Godzilla is Godzilla's lawyers.
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I go to the gym three days a week. You have to or else - I don't want to be the guy that dies shoveling snow.
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Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company.
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I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.
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'Society's Child' was a real hard record to start with. That's all you want is for you to put your first record out and have people screaming at you in the streets. But it taught me right away that what I was doing was valuable and important.
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First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law.
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I'm a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.
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I was 14 when I arrived at Real Sociedad. No team wanted me in France. I trialled for around eight clubs, and then Real came.
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I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave.
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Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I.
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I run everywhere and eavesdrop. It's the best way to see a city.
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There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.
