Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes
I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
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I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
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I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.
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When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.
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Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.
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I'm not really a mainstream novelist!
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You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
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I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
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I don't believe any color in particular can bring good luck. I think it's just a coincidence that I was introduced in white costumes. That said, the color is very soothing. So, my house is all white.
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The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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'Being green' is commendable, but I hope that people don't take too much pride and self-adoration because they shut off the water when they brushed their teeth. The truth of the matter is, conservation alone will do little to save our planet.
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One can't live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors.
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
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Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.
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Anorexia was my attempt to have control over my body and manipulate my body and starve my body and shape my body. It was not a very good relationship. It was the sort of relationship my father had to my body. It was a tyrannical, "you'll do what I tell you" relationship.
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I must say to you that my intensions for instance doing German, it is because Victoria de los Angeles is nothing to do with wanting to be like a German singer.
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I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
