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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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 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'm just a purist. What is important in my life is that I can do something that can influence many people and influence China's development. When I am myself, I am relaxed and happy and have a good result.
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I've always said that if you can get the best people who are good at what they do, but more importantly are passionate about what they do, you'll succeed.
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We know that education is everything to our children's future. We know that they will no longer just compete for good jobs with children from Indiana, but children from India and China and all over the world.
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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.
