Lawrence Durrell Quotes
the confluent smallpox - invented perhaps as the cruellest remedy for human vanity (II)
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Golf is played with the arms.
Sam Snead
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
Karen DeCrow
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
Victoria Abril
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I am a Democrat. But I am an independent Democrat.
Harold Ford, Jr.
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When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.
Natalia Vodianova
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I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.
Oprah Winfrey
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A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
Karl Marx
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You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke.
Ed Harris
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I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It's always fun to do your take on someone so iconic.
Patrick Fischler
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I don't want to just add another DVD to the pile. So I think, 'Is this going to have an impact and some lasting value? Is it worth it for me to spend two years of my middle-aged life on this?' They're my criteria, and I think that's led me to more urgent projects.
Larry Charles
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I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper.
Cameron Crowe
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My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.
Imelda Marcos
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In our state, I'm really proud of the fact that the ones who overturned Jim Crow in Kentucky were Republicans fighting against an entirely unified Democrat Party. So I am proud to be Republican. I can't imagine being anything else.
Rand Paul
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I like to be who I am.
Hal Holbrook
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Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again.
Harriet Harman
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We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win.
Rafael Nadal
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Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.
Mac Thornberry
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You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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It's kind of strange to hear your songs sung back to you! You get a big insight into what people connect to, what's moving to people or what songs people are really into.
Andrew Hozier-Byrne
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When she became very ill with heart trouble, I saw that it would be impossible for my parents to provide for my studies, and I obtained their permission to go to sea to make a career for myself there.
Fritz Sauckel
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I think we are living in an age where we really need to have bilingual leaders so that we can communicate with our constituents.
Aja Brown
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My mother sent me lithograph years ago at the height of my television success. It said, 'When your cup runneth over, watcheth out.' I never got over it. There's something so cosmic to be inferred in that. Not necessarily anything bad, and not necessarily anything good.
Peter Scolari
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the confluent smallpox - invented perhaps as the cruellest remedy for human vanity (II)
Lawrence Durrell