Nicole Hollander Quotes
Which do you think is the more impossible dream: the perfect man or the perfect handbag?
Quotes to Explore
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Marriage has made me safer.
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I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.
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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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As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
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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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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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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'm easy to hate. I get it.
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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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You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that's great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.
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In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.
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You work hard and you have expectations. So I'm living my expectations right now.
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We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.
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When I am White, I win because I am White. When I am Black, I win because I am Bogolyubov.
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I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always.
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The more country that my music gets, the less it fits into the country world today. It's almost like there needs to be two genres, modern country and... country?
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Which do you think is the more impossible dream: the perfect man or the perfect handbag?
