Elsie de Wolfe Quotes
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
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I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.
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Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.
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Politicians don't like to face unpleasant realities. In truth, nobody does, but as individuals, we have no choice; if we neglect to plan ahead, we are held accountable. Fail to meet your responsibilities at work, and you get fired. Ignore your car's gas gauge, and you get stranded.
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Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.
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Newt Gingrich is a boastful kind of guy. But when it comes to Wall Street, the former House speaker is surprisingly modest.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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I know just how isolating it can feel to experience severe anxiety.
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Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.
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Tiananmen Square in early 1989 attracted many dreamers like Ma Jian, who returned from Hong Kong to a one-room shack in Beijing in order to join the student protests.
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People say that knowledge is power. The more knowledge, the more power. Which makes you just about the most powerful person on earth. When it comes to killing people. And then getting away with it.
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One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time-that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time.
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I don't know if you realize, but I use the word 'Fuck,' so that I can think of other stuff.
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I still have no desire to own an Apple Watch, or even any desire to go to the Apple store and look at one or hold one in my hand. ... The only question, it seems to me, is this: At what point can Apple Watch be declared a swing and a miss?
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If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question.
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I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't know if it's any good. I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line.
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I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.
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Good dressing is largely a question of detail and accessories.
