Catherine the Great Quotes
Madame, you must be gay; only thus can life be endured. I speak from experience for I have had to endure much, and have only been able to endure it because I have always laughed whenever I had the chance.
Quotes to Explore
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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I'm ready for a different America.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for 'National Geographic,' and they gave us a lot of film.
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It is no longer important for me to be seen in every frame.
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News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.
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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
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I think for diners, it is about crafting an identity around food which we have not really had in a mainstream way in this country. So there is a mass movement of people who identify themselves through their food preferences or even just that they prioritize food - that's where we get this idea of being a foodie.
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War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime.
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When a person inflates his own importance, he does not see his own sins; and his sins get bigger right along with him.
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I haven't had a drink in thirteen years, but occasionally I'm tempted to have one beer. The problem is that if I have that one beer, I wake up in Tijuana four days later with a tattoo and a sore ass.
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I'm tall in Sweden, but I'm huge in Hollywood.
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Every woman goes through a lot of agony before she decides in favour of her own happiness or that of her children.
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I've never contended that I had a really horrible life.
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Salim-Sulaiman have always been my favourite. It's just an absolute pleasure working with them, and there's always something new you get to learn just by sitting in their studio and absorbing all that's happening around you.
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Curiously, a principle affects your life whether you are aware of it or not. For instance, the principle of gravity was working long before the apple ever fell on Newton's head. But once it did, and he understood it, then we as a society were free to harness this principle to create, among other things, airline flight.
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The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
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Madame, you must be gay; only thus can life be endured. I speak from experience for I have had to endure much, and have only been able to endure it because I have always laughed whenever I had the chance.
