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• Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

  

  Lady Randolph Churchill
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Best

• Fashion is one big family.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Family
  • Fashion
  • Big

• I was born in Burnsville, Minnesota, and raised in Eagan, which is right by Burnsville. I've been in that area my whole life.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Life
  • Right
  • Born

• I never do anything to my hair. I just wash it. It tends to get dry, so I just try to put good, natural oils in it. I do a deep conditioning mask, which is quite good.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Good
  • Hair
  • Deep

• I'm excited about 'Luke Cage' with Michael Colter, who plays Luke Cage. I play the villain, Cottonmouth. It takes place in Harlem. It'll just be amazing for people to get to see an African-American superhero, which there weren't any when I was growing up.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Up
  • American

• We have the sort of beautiful older woman here in Paris. People like Loulou de la Falaise and Betty Catroux, all these beautiful looking women over 60... So there is culture here in France that even if you are older, you can stay beautiful.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Me
  • Mad
  • Difference

• But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Love
  • Smile
  • Satisfaction

• True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights

  

  Salmon Portland Chase
  • Men
  • True
  • Democracy

• The Atonement of Jesus Christ outweighs, surpasses, and transcends every other mortal event, every new discovery, and every acquisition of knowledge, for without the Atonement all else in life is meaningless.

  

  Tad R. Callister
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Jesus

• Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Poor
  • Little
  • Estimation

• Some children have the most disagreeable way of getting grown-up.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Children
  • Way
  • Grown-Up

• They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.

  

  Thomas More
  • Wonder
  • Should
  • Values

• Do not doubt him who tells you he is afraid, but be afraid of him who tells you he has no doubts.

  

  Erich Fried
  • No Doubt
  • Being Afraid

• I stopped watching horror movies after I watched 'Candyman' when I was – I don't know, fifteen or something. I remember my sister rented it, 'Candyman,' and it really, really scared me. And so it was only after I found myself in a horror film that I really went back and kind of rediscovered the genre.

  

  Fiona Dourif
  • Remember
  • Movies
  • Sister

• Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.

  

  Sarah Pinborough
  • Story
  • Write
  • Genre

• I'd sell one of my songs for any car commercial in the world that paid enough money. But to stay in the Top Ten for weeks on end when I'm in my forties by letting Glen Ballard write songs for me? F**k that.

  

  Scott Weiland Stone Temple Pilots
  • Money
  • Songs
  • Forties

• Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work.

  

  Charlie Gehringer
  • Play
  • Retire
  • Backward

• Literature precedes genre.

  

  Rick Moody
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