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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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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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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I thought, If I'm so afraid of a bikini, there's something wrong. And so I had to get back into one!
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I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers are going against each other, and it's more of a bragging, boasting thing.
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I think the biggest challenge we faced in making 'The September Issue' was the fact that people in the fashion world are very suspicious of cameras. They're used to a camera being the enemy, something that is prying and looking to catch you in a compromising position, something that's judging you.
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Girls like you are responsible for all the tiresome colorless marriages; all those ghastly inefficiencies that pass as feminine qualities. What a blow it must be when a man with imagination marries the beautiful bundle of clothes that he's been building ideals around, and finds that she's just a weak, whining, cowardly mass of affectations!
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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We have the tendency of over-legislation regarding women.
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It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women's health and contraception choices.
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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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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?
