Aga Khan III Quotes
Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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Expanding background checks will help create a uniform standard for all gun purchases and prevent criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from obtaining powerful weapons.
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I can't play a character that I am judging.
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Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.
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I don't read books.
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Too clever is dumb.
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My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
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The first thing I did as a child was draw. I wanted to make animated movies. I think Disney's 'Cinderella' was the first movie I ever saw. 'Peter Pan' was the first movie I ever saw in the movie theater. I grew up with 'Dumbo' and 'Pinocchio' and 'Sword in the Stone.' Those were the movies I wanted to make.
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When something is troubling me, people know about it.
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'We would make our heroes shallow,' he answered, the words very slow and almost sad. 'We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength.'
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Being anxious is the worst feeling in the world.
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
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Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.
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Life is a slow-motion avalanche, and none of us are steering.
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Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.
