Elsie de Wolfe Quotes
It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand.

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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.
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I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
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She would worry, just as you worry. It’s the people who don’t worry-those who never have any doubts that what they’re doing is good and right-they’re the ones that cause the problems.
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For decades, Wall Street has charged companies a standard fee of 7 percent to sell their shares to the public.
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Time is the wisest counselor of all.
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I've spent a lot of time trying to understand how all the big cosmetics companies get away with the placebo science and unscientific claims.
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All of philanthropy is harnessing that urge to have your name on something, and using it for good.
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You gotta understand - the state of Mississippi was in rebellion. It had rebelled against the United States. Now that has been a very difficult story for America to tell, but that's what actually happened.
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The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none.
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Movies are movies, television is television.
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I don't want to be jumping from team to team.
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The invention of ethical and political doctrines, which blossomed into our own social sciences, is a product of times when things appeared manageable. The same goes for the criticism of those doctrines, though as a voice from the past, this criticism proved prophetic.
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The cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year.
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I think that if I'd not made the movie, I might be a veterinarian in Connecticut. I would probably be married with some children. That's probably the way it would be. But because of the film [the Exorcist], I don't have a normal life by somebody else's standards.
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Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.
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I kinda got touched a little bit. It wasn't serious. Play like that at the end of the game, you can't put that on the refs. We got a bad bounce.
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
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The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.
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About half the practice of a decent lawyer consists of telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should stop.
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It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand.