Daphne Merkin Quotes
There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on.Daphne Merkin
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Never wear anything that panics the cat.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I'm not interested in just beautiful girls and beautiful clothes.
Francesco Carrozzini -
I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
J. H. Wyman -
Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments.
Yayoi Kusama -
It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.
Sal Albanese -
For skincare, I'm a Clean and Clear girl. Especially with the humidity in Georgia, Clean and Clear has been pretty good to me with all of the makeup we have to wear. My skin really responds to that product. I'm also a big fan of Kiehl's under-eye avocado cream.
Candice Accola
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The fold is that place where He keeps His flock shut behind the hurdles of the Ten Commandments. Every now and then, a sheep leaps one of these hurdles or pushes his way between them and runs away into forbidden pastures. Then the Good Shepherd goes after the erring sheep and brings it back.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
B. D. Wong -
My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He could say there were nine innings in baseball, but no intricacies of the sport.
Damon Lindelof -
Research shows that whether you are low-income or not, mindset is a bigger predictor of success than academic skills, and how students gain great academic skills and persevere in the face of challenges.
Wendy Kopp -
History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.
Umberto Eco -
I'm not a big fan of watching my matches.
Victoria Azarenka
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I try something new every night. It's an hour show; if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me.
Kate Clinton -
The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
Vikas Swarup -
Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
Ralph Marston -
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
Samuel Johnson -
God is a verb, not a noun.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
I enjoy every second I'm in the gym. I love to challenge myself, push myself; obviously there's a lot of different routines and a lot of different stuff we do - love cycling, and again, it's part of my lifestyle.
Camilo Villegas
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If he does not sue, he is a drug user, a repeat steroid user, a knowing steroid user. He has to sue for everything that the next 50 years of merchandising is worth.
Keith Olbermann -
Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'
Rachel Weisz -
Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.
Ulysses S. Grant -
What is nobler than a man wresting and wringing his bread from the stubborn soil by the sweat of his brow and the break of his back for his wife and children!
William Morris Hunt -
On cable TV they have a weather channel - 24 hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window
Dan Spencer -
There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on.
Daphne Merkin