Ada Louise Huxtable Quotes
Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
Natalia Makarova
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
Beatrice Wood
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
Beck
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
Edmund Waller
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
Madeleine Albright
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So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.
Yingluck Shinawatra
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I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
Harlan Coben
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
Camryn Manheim
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Only silence perfects silence.
A. R. Ammons
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I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.
Illeana Douglas
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I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.
Lady Gaga
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My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.
Warren Christopher
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I didn't appreciate how special and sometimes strange my CIA world was - until it suddenly and spectacularly ended in a newspaper column.
Valerie Plame
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If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.
Rachael Leigh
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When the time is right, I will do female-centric films.
Hansika Motwani
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I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don't like people who won't give me a straight answer. I don't like those kinds of people, and I've been vocal about it.
Dan Aykroyd
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I don’t like animals. It’s a strange thing, I don’t like men and I don’t like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me.
Samuel Beckett
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It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.
Jackie Gleason
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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.
Aristotle
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Transmitting one's flaws through procreation to someone else is a crime. I could never consent to give life to someone who would inherent my ailments.
Emil Cioran
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Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis.
Ada Louise Huxtable