George Ella Lyon Quotes
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A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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The school is the servant of the workshop and will one day be absorbed in it. Therefore there will be no teachers or pupils in the Bauhaus but masters, journeymen, and apprentices.
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The woman with dark hair, wide hips, and a few extra pounds has always been the essence of beauty in Morocco.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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Corporatist attitudes against capitalism came to the fore in the 1920s. Corporatists, with their conservative values, hated the invasion of towns and regions by new businesses, upsetting traditional ways, wealth and status.
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Even when I turn 60, they'll call me a child actor.
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Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
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Kirstie Alley seems like she's absolutely amazing.
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My favorite leather jacket I got for 40 bucks at the Fairfax Flea Market, like, eight years ago. Leather just gets better over time. There's something about a jacket that you have over years and years - just fits like a glove.
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I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!
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But love like that doesn’t just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there’s always a little love left, underneath.Yes. Horrible, isn’t it?
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I was not only twenty-three, but a conspicuously retarded twenty-three.
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Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.
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We have abolished space here on the little Earth; we can never abolish the space that yawns between the stars. Once again, as in the days when Homer sang, we are face-to-face with immensity and must accept its grandeur and terror, its inspiring possibilities and its dreadful restraints.
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When I arrived, a hundred women were there auditioning... I raised my voice three registers, curled up in a chair, licked my hand and did ‘meow’s ,the director said, 'I didn’t tell her to do any of that stuff' – but the next day I got the part. Caesar Romero, Burgess Meredith, I was so lucky to work with all of them.
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I've seen a shift in general about the literacy of the public to what Tourette's is. And that's a testament to local kids and parents having the courage to share their experience.
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Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition!
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I was this very precocious kid with a big personality. When my mother saw that modelling was something I enjoyed, she didn't dissuade me.
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I could have quite literally snogged until the cows came home. And when they came home I would have shouted, "WHAT HAVE YOU COWS COME HOME FOR? CAN'T YOU SEE I'M SNOGGING, YOU STUPID HERBIVORES???
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If you want to be a good intuitive Bayesian—if you want to naturally make good predictions, without having to think about what kind of prediction rule is appropriate—you need to protect your priors. Counterintuitively, that might mean turning off the news.
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A baby is a very heavy thing, any mother will tell you.
