Adrienne Monnier Quotes
Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of its roots, nothing distracts it from its profound homeland and the look that it casts upon the outer world is gently dismayed.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
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In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
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The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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The people who used to hold the purse strings were a select group of white, middle-aged men, but that's changing, and the more it continues to change, the more we'll see inclusive stories get told.
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I never really ate that bad, I just ate too much. It wasn't like I had to switch to whole wheat bread or something like that. I really just had to eat less of what I was eating, and I had to exercise more.
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My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
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Big businesses aren't the only ones in the economic ecosystem. Nobody should fall behind because of an unfair structure.
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There's so much to be afraid of.
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I was at a party three weeks prior to the murders at Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate's house.
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Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
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Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.
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And sure th' Eternal Master foundHis single talent well employ'd.
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A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.
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An increased push for energy efficiency, renewable energy technology, electric mobility - along with the growing digitalization movement and a universal carbon pricing structure - would speed up the carbon-free future and the rise of a global middle class we desperately need. We can and must all do our part.
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In the eighteenth century, it was ladies and gentlemen and swings in a garden; today, it may be Campbell's soup cans or highway signs. There is no real difference. The artist still takes his everyday world and tries to make something out of it.
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It was one of those parties where you cough twice before you speak and then decide not to say it after all.
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Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power and should not be at all your concerns.
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The only way to live in the midst of inharmonious influences is to strengthen the will power and endure all things,yet keeping fineness of character and nobility of manner together with an everlasting heart full of love.
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Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of its roots, nothing distracts it from its profound homeland and the look that it casts upon the outer world is gently dismayed.
