Nancy Astor Quotes
I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.
Quotes to Explore
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before.
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I admire my boss, Lorne Michaels. He never stops producing. I think, for him, comedy is a tool of compassion, a way of rallying people together and saying, 'Guys, isn't the world bonkers? Aren't we all just trying our best?' There's a tenderness in everything he does.
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An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.
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I don't believe that employers should have access to an employee's private passwords, including Facebook.
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I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.
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If you must get rid of a roach, use mechanical control.
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There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.
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Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
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Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.
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I've always been a strong feminist and felt that the image of models was detrimental to women. That whole thing really bothered me. I would think about quitting about once a week.
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My mother tells me of when I was 10 or 11 and I'd wear really tight, short skirts and crop tops. All the local men would wolf whistle and stop and stare, but I didn't realise why at the time.
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It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
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I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.
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It's ironic that most evangelical churches are filled with people who live very much like the world but look different from it. It should be exactly the opposite. We should look similar to those in our community but act differently.
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I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.
