Imelda Marcos Quotes
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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
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I don't think anyone feels older. You have this infinity inside you that feels like it could go on forever.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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Comedians paint ourselves into corners all the time, and tastes in comedy change. The guy in 'The Hangover' was a really fun character to do, and it was easy to do. But you have to find other things because audiences will let you do that for a little bit, and then they're like, 'What else do you have for us, monkey?'
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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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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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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I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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Whether it's threats to Medicare, cuts in education spending, or Internet privacy, the ramifications got young people out to vote and should be enough to keep them involved in our political system.
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Frances Conroy - brilliant, brilliant actress.
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I always have to be writing.
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A few goals is the way soccer is meant to be played.
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The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.
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Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.
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Avarice is a deadly sin.
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Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable.
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The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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Funny, I never shopped. Even my jewelry - not a piece of my jewelry I bought for me.
