D. H. Lawrence Quotes
Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
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I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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I know I am extraordinarily lucky to be doing what I am doing. I have worked hard along the way and I have been blessed too. I have had a great life.
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I grew up, until age 6, in Chicago. My parents rented their apartment and, at the end of the Depression, my parents wanted to replicate that situation. So, again, we lived in a somewhat suburban setting outside of New York City, and again, they rented.
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We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them.
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I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.
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I'm organized, but receipts tend to mess up my system. They're barbarians! So I store them in a notepad.
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I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
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Cyberpunk was really a reaction against old boy sci-fi which was about white guys in space who would come up with some kind of technological thing.
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Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
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Because my hair is curly, I used to do all the straighteners, the Japanese this and the Brazilian that. And at the end of the day, your hair ends up not having a texture, not having the body - no shine. You're pretty much frying your hair. So understand the type of hair you have and do the best with what you have.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.
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My live show is almost like a meditation. An emotional apex - that's what I want it to feel like.
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You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.
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The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.
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I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change.
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As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.
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I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate.
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What he wrote was this: The great tragedy of my life is that in my search for the Holy Grail everyone calls True Love, I see myself as Zorro, a romantic and mysterious highwayman - and the women I desire see me as Porky Pig.
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In a company like Gucci, you can lose millions and millions in a second.
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When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.
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I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.
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Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
