Nicole Hollander Quotes
Which do you think is the more impossible dream: the perfect man or the perfect handbag?
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Marriage has made me safer.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
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My mom could be pretty strict.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
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I don't watch TV.
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Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.
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When we have sealed the outer border and thus stopped the illegal migration, we can talk about any solution.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.
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In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.
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E-mails, phone calls, Web sites, videos. They're still all letters, basically, and they've come to outnumber old-fashioned conversations. They are the conversation now.
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My parents are from the South - they were both born in Birmingham - so my dad saw R.E.M. really early on when they were playing college stuff in Athens. He had a bunch of their cassettes from the '80s, and when I was 8, 9, or 10, those were the sort of things that were around the cassette player in the living room.
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Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
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I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.
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I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.
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In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.
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It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.
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The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.
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Sometimes heaven was feeling nothing. Maybe being drunk was a little like dying and going to heaven. Like living in the light. He kept thinking of Ileana. She was eight now.
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You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.
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Which do you think is the more impossible dream: the perfect man or the perfect handbag?
