Audrey Hepburn Quotes
Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.
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I see a New York that is once again the empire state.
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How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and after-school programs? What about changing the corporate mind-set about the time commitment it takes to move up the ladder? What about having more husbands step up and take the major load?
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The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.
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Twitter is an amazing public tool with an incredible capacity for public good.
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Common sense to one person might be something different to another.
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Nothing I ever did I expected to do. It just kind of happened.
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I had a moment in the Library of Congress among the presidential papers. I opened a folder, and there was an envelope in it. The front of the envelope was facing the table, so I didn't know what was in it. I opened it and out spilled all this hair. I turned the envelop over and it says, 'Clipped from President Garfield's head on his deathbed.'
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I do think people should be proud and supportive of their friends, in publishing and everywhere else.
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The band can't exist without the crowd, and the crowd wouldn't be there if it wasn't for the band, and it really is something magical that people need.
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Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.
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Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.
