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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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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You do not defend a world that is already lost.
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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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Some people think fashion is frivolous but it's not... it's just that some ideas come and go quickly, and that's the nature of the language of fashion.
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We cannot expect that everyone, to use the phrase of a decade ago, will 'talk sense to the American people'. But we can hope that fewer people will listen to nonsense. And the notion that this Nation is headed for defeat through deficit, or that strength is but a matter of slogans, is nothing but just plain nonsense.
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My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.
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One cannot help the evil thoughts that come, but it is the thoughts we cultivate that make the difference between good or evil. We don't have to open the door to the devil and say, "Make yourself at home."
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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.
