Nellie Fox Quotes
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My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price.
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I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.
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I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect.
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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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I like myself a lot more than I used to. I had a very difficult time in my twenties especially. It was hard for me to look in the mirror and find something that I liked about myself.
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Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.
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What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.
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It's weird to have people so interested in your personal life. It's a part of the business that grosses me out. I'm always bummed out for people who just happen to be dating a celebrity, and they're also famous, and they can't live their life.
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... the one that has the worst effect for me was pot. I felt silly and giggly - I hate feeling like that.
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I have a sense of greatness, which comes from feeling that I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing on the planet - empowering people, especially women.
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I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.
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You can put a murderer in a suit, and hes still a murderer.
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I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five.
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We also have a lot of the same influences - we both read a lot of the beatniks. And yet what we actually do is almost exactly the opposite. His [ Hunter S. Thompson] political stuff is just wonderful, but basically nothing happens.
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Can you every single day tell a true testimony of who you are? That's really what life is about.
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There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more - there is action. The noblest and most powerful form of sympathy is not merely the responsive tear, the echoed sigh, the answering look; it is the embodiment of the sentiment in actual help.
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There are many things given to us in this life for the wrong reasons. What we do with such blessings, that is the true test of a man.
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Among the handful of British diplomats and military men aware of their government's secret policy in the Middle East-that the Arabs were being encouraged to fight and die on the strength of promises that had already been traded away-were many who regarded that policy as utterly shameful, an affront to British dignity.
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Sometimes I even say that I have surpassed Lasker in using psychology. How? Well, sometimes I use psychology with a portion of risk. That is something else, something that Lasker wouldn't allow.
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It would take a lot of time and effort to repair the computers. And they can't run programs and games kids are interested in today. They're not even on the Internet. We wouldn't be offering them much of a carrot.
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When people show you who they are, believe them. I carry that with me a lot. It has served me well.
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All small men, all non-power hitters, must learn to bunt well. It's half your game.
