Paavo Nurmi Quotes
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Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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Retiring is the easy way out.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.
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Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
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When you write fiction, you have an ideal reader in your mind who's sort of you but smarter.
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When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to survive the rigors of the camps I was in.
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Ted, I noted, was very busy - at the pumps, at the glasses behind, the bottles below, the merrily ringing till, like a percussion-player in some modern work who dashes with confidence from xylophone to glockenspiel to triangle to wind-machine to big drum to tambourine.
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My approach to directing is to not do very much directing. I'm mainly interested in what the creative group individually and together are thinking.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
