Faina Ranevskaya Quotes
Women are, of course, more intelligent. Have you ever heard of a woman that would lose her head only because a man has pretty legs?
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.
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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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We love Popsicle in our house. Nick could probably down a whole box in one sitting; he's obsessed with the sugar free box, and I'm just obsessed with the classic.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Music changes so fast, and we're in a singles market.
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When computer systems cause errors, you can end up with The Dreaded NIGO - the 'not in good order' transaction.
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What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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Some of my tattoos are a bit silly, but I know where and what time I got them.
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If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'
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When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.
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If anything, there's a reverse Moore's Law observable in software: As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspondingly slower and more bloated, using up all available resources.
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Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
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I always do my own stunts, as much as possible. I'm a little stubborn about it.
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Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted their child to marry a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, not a cook. Now, we are genius, it's different.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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Women are, of course, more intelligent. Have you ever heard of a woman that would lose her head only because a man has pretty legs?
