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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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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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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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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There is no such thing as permanence at all. Everything is constantly changing. Everything is in a flux. Because you cannot face the impermanence of all relationships, you invent sentiments, romance, and dramatic emotions to give them certainty. Therefore you are always in conflict.
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I have fabulous children.
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When people used to call me a political writer, it was kind of confusing because I was always much more interested in the social end of things which hinges on the political, but it isn't really part of it.
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Providence has so ordained it, that only two women have a true interest in the happiness of a man – his own mother, and the mother of his children. Besides these two legitimate kinds of love, there is nothing between the two creatures except vain excitement, painful and vain delusion.
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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.
