Christine de Pizan Quotes
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
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I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.
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Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.
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I wouldn't mind being like X-Men and having the claws. I mean, I don't think they'd let me play football, but it would look cool.
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There were clouds like sharks with open jaws in the sky that morning.
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Lir chiseled at the stone. It would take a month to make a perceptible impression on it. He had a few hours. Work harder, then.
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If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.
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Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ, by commanding his followers to lay down their own lives.
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Adia I do believe I failed you.Adia I know I let you down.Don't you know I tried so hardTo love you in my way.It's easy let it go...Adia I'm empty since you left me.Trying to find a way to carry on.I search myself and everyoneTo see where we went wrong.
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First there was space-endless, limitless space, so far from everything, so brutal, so frigid, so uncaring that it numbed the mind, not so much from fear or loneliness as from the realization that in this eternity of space the thing that was himself was dwarfed to an insignificance no yardstick could measure.
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In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.
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My grandfather was a police officer. He taught Dad about lie detectors and police interrogation methods, so Dad got this old World War II lie detector and used it on us regularly. He was obsessed with the truth.
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I would die if I had to be confined. I don't want to feel that I'm missing out on experiencing as much as I can. For me, experiencing is knowing people all over the world and being able to photograph.
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My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd.
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If you feel pain, you have to make up your mind whether you can play with it or not.
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I did actually have a deal with Columbia, but it became increasingly clear to me after signing with them that they didn't know what to do with me and I didn't know what to do for them, so we agreed to go our separate ways.
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Fashion is a way you can express yourself, so it's good stuff, you know?
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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My dad is an engineer and works on green energy, so I'm very aware of what it takes to keep a modern home running and how we can simplify.
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It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.
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The hardest things in the world are being unique and having your life be a story. In the old days, it was much easier, but our modern fame-driven culture, with its real-time 24-7 marinade of electronic information, demands a lot from modern citizens, and poses great obstacles to narrative.
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There is no fire without smoke but there is often smoke without fire.
