Machado de Assis Quotes
Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.
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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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The win-win situation is the basis for America's entire business world. Instead of wasting our time attempting to defeat each other, let's find a way that will make both of us gain and go home satisfied. In Israel, it doesn't work because the only meaning of victory is seeing your rival's body lying trampled on the floor.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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I am an economist, not an astrologer.
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I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
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Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
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Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.
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Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.
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When 'Ice Ice Baby' was selling a million records a day, I bought several properties: a home next to Michael J. Fox in L.A., a palace in Miami and a mountain cabin in Utah. Then, a few years later, I took a break from touring, saw that my properties had cobwebs, so I sold them, and - to my surprise - I made a huge profit!
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I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
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Movies that are subtitled don't usually do as well in American theatres.
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Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this working and dying they tend to get less and less.
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It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.
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Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.
