Adela Rogers St. Johns Quotes
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.
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Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.
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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
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'Entourage' was a show that existed around wish-fulfillment. People watched it because they wanted to believe they could go on private jets and be hanging out in Hollywood, but as a show, comedically, it was not funny. Not a funny show. It's funny, ironically, because of how terrible it is.
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I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in.
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I've had so many injuries.
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My first job in Brazil was actually to develop a way to improve the readability of billboards, and based on speed, angle of approach and actually blocks of text. It was very - actually, it was a very good study, and got me a job in an ad agency. And they also decided that I had to - to give me a very ugly Plexiglas trophy for it.
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The regulation of medicine has been a State function.
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If the awards buzz is happening, and it's coming from critics and people in the business and all of that, that's only more good news.
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People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.
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I am much more productive late at night because I have no one to look to for entertainment aside from myself.
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Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
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We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last to be able to do anything about it.
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Within seconds thoughts become words that slip off our tongue and into the world. Pausing before we speak may seem cumbersome, but it allows us to decide: Is this helpful? Does this need to be said now? What is the best way to say this?
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
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I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.
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Forget the adage buy low and sell high.
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I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
