Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes
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Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.
Cameron Russell
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Actually, the fun part was not knowing what the heck I was going to be doing.
Utada Hikaru
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Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions.
Rachel Kushner
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If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Wayne Dyer
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work. And I didn't think about the material as much. But sometimes I've thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn't work out.
Al Pacino
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What we've said to the girls is: 'If you guys ever decide that you're going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will get the exact same tattoo, in the same place.' And we'll go on YouTube and show it off as a family tattoo.
Barack Obama
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I have always been drawn to child-related causes. I find that people listen to me more when I advocate for children now that I have my own.
Jennifer Garner
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And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.
Hippocrates
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Do not say the land ahead does not exist, simply because you cannot see it.
R. H. Barlow
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Only where there are graves are there resurrections.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
Isaac Newton
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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Confucius
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Love is eternal – the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Come away, come away, Death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath, I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white stuck all with yew, O prepare it! My part of death no one so true did share it. Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strewn: Not a friend, not a friend greet My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown. A thousand thousand sighs to save, lay me O where Sad true lover never find my grave, to weep there!
William Shakespeare
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We've had trickle down economics in the country for ten years now, and most of us aren't even damp yet.
Molly Ivins
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette