Elsie de Wolfe Quotes
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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Language does not make one an elite.
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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
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I got a big mouth.
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I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.
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I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.
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I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
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The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
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I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.
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I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.
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All I want to do is be the best attorney general that I can be.
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I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.
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I think it's really important to remember that it's a long life, and it's a long career. In a perfect world, your career will be long. It does not begin and end with any one job. The point is to continue to have longevity in your career.
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To be clear and unequivocal, I can say that Islamisation is constitutionally banned in Hungary.
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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.
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Lauren Conrad has been described as one of the first people to significantly benefit from the popularity of reality TV.
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The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
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I'd like to do a romantic comedy.
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My business is to preach to you the beauty of suitability.
