Wolcott Gibbs Quotes
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There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.
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I don't think the Republicans care much about minorities.
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Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
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I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.
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I was brought up as a normal kid.
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I have used Proactiv, and I use X Out, and they are the only things that work for me.
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I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.
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Two hundred channel choices in most homes certainly gives you the world of choice. And so slicing it, dicing it, and offering someone their favorite thing - by the way, if it's not good enough, make it yourself and post it.
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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The earth has grown a nervous system, and it's us.
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When a man counts one, two, three, he is not only doing mathematics, he is on the path to the mysticism of numbers in Pythagoras and Vitruvius and Kepler, to the Trinity and the signs of the Zodiac.
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from him who will not give her all. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes has burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.
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A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
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Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.
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Better a thousand times err on the side of over-readiness to fight, than to err on the side of tame submission to injury, or cold-blooded indifference to the misery of the oppressed.
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The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serve as a medium to Being and remain open to its often unfathomable dictates. This is the only way the work can transcend its creator and radiate its meaning...
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Where it all will end, knows God.
