William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
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I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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You have to be yourself.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool.
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I dig all kinds of competition.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
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On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.
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The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.
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Writers are so important.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.
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I've got a hockey record, I took off my skate and tried to stab a guy, I'm the only person who ever tried that.
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Short-term thinking is the greatest enemy of good government.
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It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
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A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
