Tallulah Bankhead Quotes
I was raped in a driveway when I was eleven. … It was a terrible experience because we had all that gravel.
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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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 have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
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Being that I always perform, I started working out with a trainer to get that endurance and stamina. Now, I guess you could call me a gym rat.
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age.
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I do think girls in their twenties accept certain kinds of lesser treatment than they would at other times in their lives.
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Yet it depends on yours. The two are one. They are a plural, a right and left, a pair, Two parallels that meet if only in
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I thought I'd be married and a father by 35.
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Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it
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By far the greatest discovery of all the centuries is the power of thought.
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I was raped in a driveway when I was eleven. … It was a terrible experience because we had all that gravel.
