Lauren Bacall Quotes
You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks.
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I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.
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If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.
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Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.
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One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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I will say I remember the best thing in terms of publicity was being on the cover of Newsweek.
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Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear.
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I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?
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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.
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Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
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I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my personal thing that I have for me.
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I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I would have done that a little different' because hindsight is 20/20.
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I wanted to create things that you can always pull out of your closet and rely on. I wanted to create a timeless, classic collection of clothing that you can keep expanding on.
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I believe that every role that I have done this far has had quality and content. My roles have been very demanding and every role has been a challenge and a learning experience that has helped me mature as an actress.
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Federal law should hold organizations like the League of Women Voters harmless if they make good-faith mistakes while registering people.
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I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather myself.
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I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That's how much I love Hello Kitty.
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If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.
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I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.
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In the history of physics, every time we've looked beyond the scales and energies we were familiar with, we've found things that we wouldn't have thought were there. You look inside the atom and eventually you discover quarks. Who would have thought that? It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.
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Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.
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First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great.
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Now, I don't make decisions as fast as I used to.
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You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks.
