Richard Aldington Quotes
Such shame is not even skin deep. And as to forgetting, surely, you know that is Woman's First and Greatest Art?
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Sometimes, all the interviews, those are the toughest thing for me, but once you really start to do it a lot and start to get used to it, I can find some fun in those parts, too. Because playing golf is the easiest thing for me, and that's something I'm so used to; that's why it was always easy.
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The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
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A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.
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Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.
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I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.
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Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.
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One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.
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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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I was teased if I brought my books home. I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books in the bag and bring them home. Not that I was that concerned about them teasing me - because I would hit them in a heartbeat. But I felt a little ashamed, having books.
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I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.
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When you get into Louisiana, it really is like a different country in a lot of ways. The plants you see are a little different, like the weeping willows and the cypress trees that come up out of the bayou. And it's steamy hot.
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Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not!
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I think was able to do a lot of things here.
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Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.
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Charan is very hard-working and non-egoistic, given the family he comes from. He is very open to listening, and he surrenders himself completely to the director. It was lovely to work with an actor like that.
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We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we unanimously fight, without seeking our own interests... I profess I could never satisfy myself on the justness of this war, but from the authority of the parliament to maintain itself in its rights; and in this cause I hope to prove myself an honest man and single-hearted.
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'…Just you bloody hypocrites with your four wives and your ten thousand houris in heaven?…'
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I can't go to the hardware store, cut a sheet in half and staple it to the window anymore. It doesn't fly.
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What we demand is integrity and honesty of the research that is rendered.
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Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
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Mrs. Goldenthal's twin boys, Alex and Erno, were our age, and I discovered that they had been selected at Auschwitz for Mengele's experiments like us. Mrs. Goldenthan had stayed with them, and I found out later that she had hidden a younger child, Margarita, underneath her long skirt. She had come into the camp with the child hidden in her dress and during her entire stay there, even in the Nazi barracks where she had kept Margarita under the mattress during inspections, she and the other women had helped conceal the child.
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As Jews, we are commanded to give tzedakah - an act of justice, not charity - because it is the righteous thing to do.
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Such shame is not even skin deep. And as to forgetting, surely, you know that is Woman's First and Greatest Art?
