Wendy Liebman Quotes
I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.
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One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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For all its flaws, 'The Hands of Orlac' really is a seminal film, and if you're partial to that particular B-movie subgenre of Demon Body Parts, you really ought to see it.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
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If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
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It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.
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Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a public-cascade way as in a house-to-house way.
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I ran track in college. And that team, that all-lady team that I was on, I can remember just being so incredibly sad that I knew we were all going to leave each other after we graduated and that our lives would change. And even though I was the bridesmaid at all their weddings and stuff like that, it's just not the same, right?
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
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Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.
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I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.
