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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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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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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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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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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The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.
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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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A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
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You do not defend a world that is already lost.
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I'm a huge, huge lover of weaponry, of Japanese martial arts movies.
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A lot of people my age are so hyper. I like hyper people.
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One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less, everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end philosophy of economics in order to justify their own evil works. And the economists, for the most part, have sucked up to that money.
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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.
