Suzy Parker (Cecilia Ann Renee Parker) Quotes
I believe in the gold standard. I like solid lumps of things. You can always melt them down.
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My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
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What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
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When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.
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Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.
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I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
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Anything that's on television as often as someone on 'The X Factor' is what's successful. That doesn't mean that I condone that or think that it's right. To be honest, I'd be the first to say I think it's a shame. But if that's the way it is then that's the way it is.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.
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There seems little doubt in my mind that depression, in particular at the severe end of the experience of this condition, is as real a disorder as diabetes is at the severe end of blood glucose levels.
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Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.
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I was a fan of Jon Jones. I thought he was great.
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For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.
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We're paying a lot of attention to the iPad. But we're expanding that to a tablet focus.
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The basic idea of karma is not punishment. Karma presents the opportunity for development; to make use of opportunities that were not taken advantage of, to fill in gaps of ignorance, to enlarge understanding through experience, to do what should be done.
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We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.
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Because I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.
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In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
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I've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm going to stay.
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I believe in the gold standard. I like solid lumps of things. You can always melt them down.
