Amanda Filipacchi Quotes
Walking on eggshells is what stupid people call the effort required not to offend someone. For smart people, not offending takes no effort.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I was a fashion editor for years in London before I came to 'Vogue,' and I spent my life arranging the folds of a ball gown skirt for a picture and pinning fabric and using all those stylist tricks. And you don't have to do that now because they can do it in Photoshop.
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.
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I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.
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I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well then we call that bragging. And if you are unhappy about what happened, we call that complaining. And so what are you going to do?
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Collecting is my passion.
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We gon' be around for a long time.
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Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
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Even 'Gone With the Wind' had a shocking, cold-blooded murder.
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I've always wanted a 'Full House' reunion, so when you see stuff like this comes back, it's super exciting.
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Estque dei sedes nisi terra et pontus et aeret caelum et virtus? superos quid quaerimus ultra?Jupiter est quodcumque vides, quocumque moveris.
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You can't just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate.
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A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.
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I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.
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The real loser of our times is the one who is expected to win.
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Walking on eggshells is what stupid people call the effort required not to offend someone. For smart people, not offending takes no effort.
