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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I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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He might take habit, whether from wave or phrase,Or power of the wave, or deepened speech, Or a leaner being, moving in on him, Of greater aptitude and apprehension,As if the waves at last were never broken, As if the language suddenly, with ease, Said things it had laboriously spoken.
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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 I look better in a suit than a loincloth. So that may define some of the parts I play.
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I'm scared of being a one-hit wonder because my second single has set the bar too high.
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I think a lot of tunes can suffer from being so simple, so either they get over-complicated or their simplicity means the simple way to lay them down becomes the difficulty.
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A poem is a cup of words open to the sky and wind in a bucket.
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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.
