Edward Durell Stone Quotes
They say people are fundamentally interested in only three things - food, sex and shelter. I can't say I'm authoritative on the first two, although I'm in favor of both. It's shelter that concerns me, and it's nice to be doing something people are interested in.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
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But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.
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I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.
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I'm very open about the fact that it's nice when someone says you're pretty. Especially for someone like me.
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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
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One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light.
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I did a Broadway show with Alan Alda and how much money can Alan Alda have.
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It's just amazing to do something that's part of a pop culture phenomenon.
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They say people are fundamentally interested in only three things - food, sex and shelter. I can't say I'm authoritative on the first two, although I'm in favor of both. It's shelter that concerns me, and it's nice to be doing something people are interested in.
