Lee Radziwill Quotes
I've always wanted to be an actress. At school and in college, I did some things. But then I married, and then I had children, and then there were the political years.
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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What really matters is your movies and how good a person you are. Otherwise, tabloids and news channels writing about you only builds your curiosity and stardom and propels you to reach wider places.
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The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
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It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.
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I think the way to think about the impact of Hiroshima is to think about it as a sudden shift in the balance of power.
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Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.
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Political positions do not belong to the officeholder; they belong to the people that place us in office.
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I've always wanted to be an actress. At school and in college, I did some things. But then I married, and then I had children, and then there were the political years.
