Lauren Bacall Quotes
If there was one thing I had never been, it was mysterious, and if there was one thing I had never done, it was not talk.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.
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There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.
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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
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I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.
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If you believe the people who love you, you get lazy. And if you believe the people who hate you, you become... maybe intimidated, or whatever the word might be, and you don't write as well.
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I loved the writing process. I loved it.
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I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.
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I want to get away from couture just being done for a picture or for a single moment on the red carpet. I want to try and convince women that couture can be worn in the day and that there's a reality and relevance there, because that's what Mr. Christian Dior wanted.
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I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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To my knowledge, there have been no studies done on the effects of antidepressants and altitude. But it is hugely important to find out if there are side effects. We should also find out what are the effects on fine motor skills and reaction time. These are all important questions that should be assessed.
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Biggie has been the logo for success, the logo for doing it big - from popping champagne, the ladies, the fashion.
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If there was one thing I had never been, it was mysterious, and if there was one thing I had never done, it was not talk.
