Vita Sackville-West Quotes
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There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.
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I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out. This USO tour is especially meaningful because of the friends I have met and I am honored to be apart of it.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.
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Go to any Shinto temple in Japan and you'll see it: a simple stand from which hang hundreds of wooden postcard-size plaques with a colorful image on one side and, on the other, densely scribbled Japanese characters in black felt-tip pen, pleas to the gods for help or succor.
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The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.
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I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.
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Managing to tell a story is very gratifying.
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My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.
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Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.
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I'm the one who started redevelopment in South Los Angeles, not Jan Perry. I did it. I love Jan. She's a good person, and she did a wonderful job with what she did downtown, but in L.A., South L.A., I'm the one.
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When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.
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Anybody who knew me growing up calls me Vinny.
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Ideology is a system of beliefs, held in common by the members of a collectivity.
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Tell them the universe is too complicated a toy for a sensibly cautious being to play with.
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When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.
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the religious ISA (the system of the different churches),
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Windin' your way down on Baker Street,Light in your head and dead on your feet.Well another crazy day,You'll drink the night awayAnd forget about everything.This city desert makes you feel so cold.It's got so many people, but it's got no soul.And it's taking you so longTo find out you were wrong,When you thought it had everything.
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And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England.
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Jay Z in many ways is a rock artist. In the sense that they've used hard rock, punk rock, psychedelic rock aesthetics and influences in their music. When you see Kanye West, he has a full band playing. Jay Z has a full band playing with Marshalls.
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I believe in North, South, East, West, The seasons, life and death, geography. That which is provable, absolute and most of all, functional. I believe in things that can kill me.
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It should be like a driver's license - no one can have an Instagram until they're 18. It's the wild, wild west, the internet.
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I like to think I can keep a pretty level head.
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Autumn in felted slipper shuffles on, Muted yet fiery.--Vita Sackville-West
