Catherine the Great Quotes
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.
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I'm a big baseball fan, and I feel proprietary about the Dodgers. I'm not the owner. I'm not the manager. But I feel passionate about the decisions that they make, and I take it personally when they make decisions I don't like.
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In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
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A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
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I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.
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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
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And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.
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I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.
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Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I've been to Iran, and if you're there you see little kids, cops, old people, cemeteries. Once you see that, you can't say, 'Oh, Iran, let's bomb them.'
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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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One does not always do the best there is. One does the best one can.
