Lauren Bacall Quotes
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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'It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice, but the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.'
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It is important for children to grow up in a world where there are all kinds of adults and role models around them, for them to know it's not just parents and people who are parents that care about them, but that there are people who are living other kinds of lives.
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If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
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There were, indeed, several 'Christs,' several people whose preaching and exploits merged to form the composite figure historically known as Christ. There are all kinds of contradictions in the Bible, and in Christ's own attitudes as depicted, because there were more Christs than one.
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Looking at yourself in a mirror isn’t exactly a study of life.
