Georgiana Burne-Jones Quotes
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The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people's journeys.
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I'm happy to fight anybody.
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I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
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If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.
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Disney's Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative.
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I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
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When learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foesFirst reared the stage, immortal Shakespeare rose;Each change of many-colored life he drew,Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new:Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign,And panting Time toiled after him in vain.
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Western media only intensified the climate of fear and insecurity
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...something can be so much more than the parts it took to make it, and why people need things around them that lift them above their lives and make them feel the miracle of living.
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Imams and muftis and kathis sat here on cushions, turbaned elders who had risen above the squalor of the flesh. The heat was tamed by wide-eyed boys with feathery fans. One of the muftis much admired one of these boys, and he stroked his buttocks with a gentle hand. The smell of the holy was wafted towards entering Bonaparte, who said with care:
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What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: 'Paint me just as I am.' Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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I'm not saying the N word anymore.
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Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.
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They wanted to hear about the sex, of course. But not the rest; no one wanted to hear the rest.
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My photographs don't do me justice - they just look like me.
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At Indy, we are the NASA of the production-car world, and that's clearly why manufacturers are involved - it's such a good testbed.
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You may hear people say that submarines have done away with the battleship, and that aircraft have annulled the mastery of the sea. That is what our pessimists say. But do you imagine that the clumsy submarine or the fragile aeroplane is really the last word of science?
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I would not wish any companion in the world but you.
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It's funny: I've been very successful and done a lot of films, and I don't really have an agent - I don't really pursue jobs, I let people come to me.
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One night at a party, a really drunk guy came up to me and said, 'Whoa you look like Yves Saint Laurent' because I was wearing a turtleneck. I'd love to track that guy down and tell him that he gave pretty good casting advice.
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I don't want to get over on anybody. If they pay me, I want to be worth it.
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We must pay for the wine we have drunk.
