Anne Wilson Schaef Quotes
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to live the width of it as well.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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I did my thesis on clowns. It's a powerful thing when you've got this little red nose on. It's a mask, the smallest in the world, but it unveils you. You stand up there and do these exercises that free you, let you play, and see what comes out. What comes out is the truth.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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In seeking a lawyer, you are looking for an advocate, an expert advisor on the law and on your rights and responsibilities, a strategist, a negotiator, and a litigator.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.
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My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
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I may as well say it, I have been married three times.
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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
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I wasn't unhappy, but I was a little like: 'Is this it? Really?' I was thirsty.
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All my life, my girlfriends are always skinny. Beauty in art has nothing to do with beauty in reality. Why do you like primitive art? Because there is beauty in the deformity. Sometimes paintings that people consider realistic are not at all. Raphael figures look realistic, but in real life, they were deformed.
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There is no lack of profitability or investment among these telecommunications companies. There is nothing that an open-internet order did to them that diminished their success.
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When you feel great, you emanate a certain energy that translates as beautiful. I don't care if you have the standard beauty or not; it's that X-factor that comes through, and the basis of that is good health.
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Growing up, I lived in a house without art: no picture books on the shelves, no visits to museums, no posters on the bedroom wall.
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We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.
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The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.
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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to live the width of it as well.
