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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The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.
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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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I think God has me on a path. I think he puts certain people in my life, and angels send messages to me, like, Kanye, I want you to say this, and I want you to say that, and I want you to talk to this girl here, and I don't want you to do this over here.
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Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.
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There have been prophets and students who handle the Bible like a child's box of bricks; they explain to us the design and structure and purpose; but as time goes on things do not work out in their way at all. They have mistaken the scaffolding for the structure, while all the time God is working out His purpose with a great and undeterred patience.
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Good drink... good meat... good God, let's eat!
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I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base. They're usually looking for something from you with your character.
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The works of God are great mysteries and may truly always be hidden from us, however it is not wrong to lead your own personal enquiry through your prayers to the Lord.
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We'd go in there without much of an idea and sit and discuss. They evolved in the studio itself. Directions would appear, and it often fell to me to write the poem that connected the dots.
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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.
