Isabel Gillies Quotes
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Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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Amaranth, the world's most nutritious grain, is available from health food stores.
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I started modeling with a very negative part of me – I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.
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I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.
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Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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Pascal is called the founder of modern probability theory. He earns this title not only for the familiar correspondence with Fermat on games of chance, but also for his conception of decision theory, and because he was an instrument in the demolition of probabilism, a doctrine which would have precluded rational probability theory.
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Writers are the ones who figure out how to put their observations into words.
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It doesn't work the same way everywhere. The Americans are the most gullible, because they don't like to deny co-workers' requests. People in the former Soviet bloc countries are less trusting, perhaps because of their previous experiences with their countries' secret services.
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I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.
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There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.
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Sometimes it makes me sad that I didn't get to have one family for my entire life.