Leighton Meester Quotes
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won't stand idle hoping that our economy improves. This is a brand new day for the Illinois Republican Party.
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When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.
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I have the strange ability to shut things out.
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I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.
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There's been no real reason to move to LA. The stuff I've done for America has been done in Europe anyway. We made a decision early on that we'd find our base and not shake the children's world as much as mine.
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I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.
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When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
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It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is.
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In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
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Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly termed par excellence the exact sciences, may then, with the fair white wings of imagination, hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live.
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After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.
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I always wish I could go back and see the people that I love as children.
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We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.
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I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never be resolved.
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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love. There are simply different ways of doing it.
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My native country was full of youthful promise; Europe was rich in the accumulated treasures of age.
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Sad is Eros, builder of cities, And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.
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Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their absolute nature. With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos.
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As a kid, I can't remember having anything to play with except a loose tooth. And that wasn't mine. It was my brother's.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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I think guys who are rebels and make their own rules are appealing.
