Ninon de L'Enclos Quotes
The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
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Not to sound bad, but some girls are dumb. It's because they spend so much of their life trying to have the right look. On the other hand, some girls are just really smart. There are girls you can have conversations with that are healthy conversations. You can argue real life issues and solve problems together. That is what makes a woman sexy.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage.
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I love Rihanna. She represents that strong, independent woman that you cannot keep down.
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Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.
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Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
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I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
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I think the role of the Bond woman has changed so much over the years that it now doesn't follow a typical archetypical view. Before, it was very much a beautiful woman who didn't contribute much and who usually ended up getting killed or was arm candy for Bond. But now the women in a Bond movie have so much more to offer.
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'Narcos' was a very strong experience, not only artistically and politically, but as a human being.
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What song have you played 10,000 times? It's probably not something basic. It's probably a song that validates your experience on Earth.
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Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.
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Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and aims at establishing a lifestyle and ethical outlook verifiable by experience and the scientific method, independent of all arbitrary assumptions of authority and creeds.
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Cary Grant would arrive on the set and everybody's morale immediately lifted. The crew were crazy about him and so was I. But, curiously, I never felt the male-female chemistry that you sometimes experience on a set. I could have been talking to my best girl-friend.
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A tragedy for the party. He's got no ideas, no experience and no hope.
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I remember I was really, really proud the first moment I got my insurance and also just going in to get my SAG card and filling out the form and realizing I was a member of all the unions I could be a part of as an actor. It was a really fulfilling experience for me.
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I want my work at Google to have a long-term impact on the tech scene in Africa and to result in millions more Africans not just going online but having an amazing experience once they do. That's what drives me every single day when I get to work.
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Being in New Mexico was such a great experience for me, and I hope to get back there one day for some more films or TV.
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I don't claim to be a particularly good father. I'm flawed, let's say. I've certainly been affected by the experience of having kids... trying to be a father, at least. It's an amazing process. It's like songwriting: it's a complete mystery to me. I don't understand it - but I've certainly written about it.
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Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.
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I studied fascism when I was at university. My husband's family are German Jews. I'm very close to his grandma and she left Berlin when she was 19 in 1937. So, it's kind of all around me.
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Darling, you can't promise that...but I like to hear you say it.
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The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year 2000 - to everyone who believes that wealth should be redistributed. And that message is clear and concise: Go to Hell.
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The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
