Nell Irvin Painter Quotes
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To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
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There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
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I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
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The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.
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It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.
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I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.
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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
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I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. For example, it is essential to use a sharp knife: the sharper the knife, the more fluid and precise your work and the less likely you are to get hurt. Dull knives are a danger - they slip far more often.
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I initially wanted to work in the music industry more on the A&R side. While I was in school, I began working in the New Business department of an advertising firm, and very quickly I was responsible for roughly 70% of their business, so you could say I had a natural knack for the advertising world.
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I think it's going to deliver on the promises we've said it's going to and it is going to be the most successful product ever to come into the handheld environment, and it just happens to have a number of different functions.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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Now, if the ignorance of nature gave birth to Gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.
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Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
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I don't deliberately select my friends because of their background. If I enjoy someone's company, then that's all that counts. I have many different friends who aren't from the same background as me and we get on really wellit's brilliant.
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A philosopher is a man who can look at an empty glass with a smile.
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I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.
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I hope that 9/11 has grouped us as one, and in doing so it has united us. Perhaps as a unit we can help each other get ahead, survive and succeed in this free world. And hey guys, let's not forget out manners!!
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What we can see depends heavily on what our culture has trained us to look for.
