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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People will watch your film only if it's good. Another star's flop won't make your film a hit. So my race is with myself.
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How much cooler was Oz than seeing the little dude behind the curtain?
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It's important to have the right agent - people that are working hard for you. But an actor needs to be in control of their career no matter how good the representation is.
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it’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds." - Barack Obama, 44th U.S. President
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It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to.
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I wanted to make some of the really important things of my generation and some of the biggest.
