Nathaniel Branden Quotes
A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.
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Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
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When I lived in Greece and off the coast of Italy, I enjoyed a branzino dish so much that I created my own version.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
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You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending in the country, but you can't out of one side of your mouth say, 'Yes, we're for tax cuts, we're for spending discipline, and we're for bringing down the debt.'
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Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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Sometimes you want things so bad you will kind of lower your standards, and I've learned that once you do that, it's really hard to go back, to get people to respect you and respect your craft.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.
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...so do wrap up!
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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If you want to be an actor, my advice is to learn your lines and don't bump into the other actors.
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A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.
