Yasmin Le Bon Quotes
I am actually the most unglamorous person on the planet. I am the most unfinished, unpolished person ever.
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Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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We must draw on the unique strengths of the Japanese economy, seek an open and cooperative approach with our international partners, and intelligently exploit the promise of new growth areas.
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The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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I would like to do something that pushes me as an actress to make me better. I would love to do something dramatic or crazy. I think that would be so much fun.
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Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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In 2011, General Alston, four-star commander in Iraq, recommended to the President, a force level of over 20,000. The President rejected it and pulled out all the forces with what is now known as a disastrous consequence in Syria.
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I've been a lucky boy.
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I thrive with fashion and shopping and imports and things like that. It gives me a rush. I love Barneys New York and Neiman Marcus and all the top-of-the-line houses.
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All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.
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Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
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I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.
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I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.
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In 'A Poetics of Optics,' Equi writes that 'all images bank on alchemy.' This idea captures her fundamental sense of poetry as turning common material into something rare and valuable.
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Being told by the IMF to go easy on austerity is like being told by the Spanish Inquisition to be more tolerant of heretics.
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I think it's really easy to just get caught up in what everyone else is doing, so I think the most important thing to remember is to be really strong in your own shoes. That is the main thing for me. The one thing that kind of gets in my way sometimes is when I'm a little too aware of everybody else.
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We can change society, change humanity by changing ourselves as individuals. By cultivating inner values, we can change our own lives and those of our families. This is how we can create a more peaceful world.
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If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.
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I would never tell myself, you have to write 20 pages today or something. But I do try to show up. Read what I wrote, fix things.
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I do believe that mentorship is something I did not get in school, and I don't think it exists in school in a sufficient way.
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I am actually the most unglamorous person on the planet. I am the most unfinished, unpolished person ever.
