Edith Piaf Quotes
I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
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Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.
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I had long hair when I was a teenager.
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The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
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There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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I do not consider myself beautiful.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.
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I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.
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I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.
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I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.
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I wanted to create flats that are as chic as heels - flats you don't have to apologize for.
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Paris is wild; it's decadent... it's so many things.
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In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.
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I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly strange idea.
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I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.
