Agnes Denes Quotes
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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When you're a kid, to be honest, you could be in the worst situation ever, but you're still going to have ways to enjoy it.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
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Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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Often, when you're on a movie set, you're miserable. It's cold. You're hungry. You're tired. It's still dark out. And yet, there's no place I'd rather be. It's the happiest I am, and the most calm.
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You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
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I've never personally been anorexic.
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It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.
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No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
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I love '80s horror.
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Now that my wine has been served in the White House, why not me? Who could talk to farmers better than I? Somebody even asked me the other day if I had anything in my platform about taxes. 'Hell yes,' I said. 'Great state. But I wouldn't want to live there.'
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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
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You just can't afford to care that much about the negative things people say about you. You just can't!
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I hope I don't have a big ego. I try to keep that in check. But I am a prideful person, I will say.
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I'm surprised by the talent I find all over. There are always new chefs who propose many interesting new ideas, new ways of looking at ingredients.
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You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.
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The threat that ISIL presents and poses to the United States is very different in kind, in type and degree than al Qaeda. ISIL is not your parents' al Qaeda. It's a very different model.
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Over a 10-season stretch from 1967 to 1976, eight Super Bowl champions either were the Raiders or had to beat the Raiders in the playoffs. The Jets, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Baltimore Colts, Miami, the Steelers each of the first two times... we all had to deal with the Raiders.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don't want to think.
