Edith Wharton Quotes
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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I used to, in the summertime, spend so much money doing a lot of fun stuff. Now, I'm actually consciously trying to save so we can live how we want to live after basketball. I've even sold a few things.
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Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
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You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.
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To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.
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I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?
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I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.
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Deep down, I never wanted to see Mourinho fired. We experienced some very beautiful things together in 2015.
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Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.
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For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.
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I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.
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I didn't know what was going through my mind.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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I arrive in New York on October 15, 1975. On my own, by the way.
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Nobody can make a putt that breaks to the right. It's unnatural. Unless you're left-handed, of course. Standing over a putt that breaks to the right can actually make you dizzy. I've long thought that right-breaking putts are a major contributor to mental and physical ill health.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination plants is an expensive testament to that.
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The migratory phenomenon exists, and Europe will have to face it together. The only alternative is a 'beggar-thy-neighbor' solution, in which countries try to load the problem off on their neighbors.
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In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.
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My wife she's fat. Why, if she lost a few pounds, she'd be perfectly round.
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Be a doer and not a critic.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.
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The extra opinions and the extra praise is just a bonus, it's not the main thing. The main thing is how I feel about myself. And I feel really good about myself.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
