Niki de Saint Phalle Quotes
I wanted to make some of the really important things of my generation and some of the biggest.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.
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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.
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I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
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Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
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Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.
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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
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L.A. is my office. I come here for work and work only.
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
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Spangling the wave with lights as vainAs pleasures in the vale of pain,That dazzle as they fade.
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You see movie stars advertising all sorts of things today for whatever reason. And it may be that it affords them the luxury to do smaller movies or to go and do a play. Because, otherwise, you have to keep doing movies where you get paid millions and millions of dollars to maintain a certain lifestyle.
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The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth: truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier.
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We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
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There is a reason why conservatives talk about 'government' and not 'self-government,' because to refer to the latter is to concede that 'the government' is really the most basic product of our political commonwealth, that it is what we produce among ourselves so as to order the production of everything else that we do together.
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I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
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I wanted to make some of the really important things of my generation and some of the biggest.
