Nan Kempner Quotes
You don't want to buy a surprise, because then the surprise is how awful it looks on you.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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I loved the world of imagination.
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I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
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I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.
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The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.
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My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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There's nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. It's bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores.
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I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.
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I rode horses since I was a kid.
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There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.
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Iraq is a country that has been invaded. It's not a failing state that you want to help. It's a country that was functioning good or bad, with a horrible dictator, but you have invaded.
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I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.
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It really bothers me when a guy is controlling. Dont just say Im picking the place - ask me where I want to go!
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You don't want to buy a surprise, because then the surprise is how awful it looks on you.
