Norman Hartnell Quotes
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and 1965, Johnson's principal goals were to win the presidency in his own right and to pass his Great Society legislation through Congress.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
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It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!
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Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.
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We must not allow the horrific actions of madmen to cut us off from our humanity.
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I'm conflicted about the lyric tattoo thing. I feel like that's a lifetime decision, and I always feel like, 'I hope you don't regret this a couple years from now when you get tired of that song.'
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To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I know what I received. I must have the will to give back to others.
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I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
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The alleviation of the condition of insanity has also been accomplished now…
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Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent.
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What does matter is this: the Russians successfully meddled in our democracy, and our intelligence agencies have concluded that they will do so again.
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I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job or suffered under the despotic rule of a tyrannical chef or boobish owner.
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In grammar school, I didn't talk. Everybody said I was the invisible one. I'm still very shy.
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A beautiful 35-year old ain't as good-looking as an ugly 19-year old.
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We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.
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Brooklyn has a bit of everything - some of the most beautiful things in America, and some of the most wretched, ugly, impoverished things.
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To feel nervous; to feel threatened and vulnerable and alive and engaged in that sense when interacting with someone you're really attracted to? I think that's wonderful. That's usually the best part. In fact, it's almost always downhill from there.
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I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful.
