Arlene Francis Quotes
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.
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The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
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I'm not trying to set the world on fire; I just want to make really beautiful clothes that women want to wear, can afford, and can really see themselves in.
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The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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You don't know where life takes you.
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Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.
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I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.
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Very early in my career, I thought I had to conform to one style of leadership - lead by being the loudest one in the room, with the sharpest elbows.
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Life is the best party I've ever been invited to.
