Elsie de Wolfe Quotes
Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.
Elsie de Wolfe
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
J. Philippe Rushton
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
Samuel Johnson
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Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.
Hall Caine
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I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.
Dan Farmer
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When I'm at home, I just run all the time, you know; I get up, and I go pretty much four days a week outdoors. I go in the canyons around L.A., Malibu - just around L.A. there's a lot of different spots.
Flea
Red Hot Chili Peppers
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I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.
Lance Bass
NSYNC
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I don't program or code or anything like that.
Rand Paul
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In August of 2011, Steve Jobs, the tech icon who disrupted a string of traditional industries, called me and told me he thought he'd figured out a way to revolutionize TV. He invited me to come see it at Apple in a few months, but he died just six weeks later, and that meeting never came to pass.
Walt Mossberg
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May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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I'm not trying to be something that I'm not, and I think a lot of people can relate to that. They want something that's real, and I think I give that to them.
A.J. Styles
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I went through a lot of changes in the years from when I first started out.
Brian Wilson
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Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholder's equity – myself especially – are in a state of shocked disbelief.
Alan Greenspan
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I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.
James Earl Jones
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I love everything from The Rolling Stones to Run-DMC to Nina Simone.
Hannah Bronfman
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When you become a parent, you leave a lot of things behind and refocus, maybe on how simple life really is and what few things there really are to worry about. And everything else can go by the wayside.
Chris Cornell
Soundgarden
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For 35 years, I've said, 'I'll never go solo.' But after a period of time - and this isn't just for an artist, but for anybody - all the things you never wanted to do eventually become the only things left that you haven't done. So they start looking pretty interesting.
Chrissie Hynde
Pretenders
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I initially wanted to be a teacher, and then I was going to become an engineer and build bridges and highways, but pretty soon I went into the business world. I never did get to be a teacher except in a different way.
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
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Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.
Elsie de Wolfe