Albrecht Durer Quotes
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
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I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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We would like a stable policy framework, and whatever incentives and tax structures are there should be made known to investors upfront. There should be credibility, clarity and continuity in both policy formulation and its implementation.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
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As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.
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Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
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The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
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All pitchers are liars or crybabies.
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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.
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I'll watch anything, from action to art films.
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In spite of the existence of the Soviet Union, however, the proletarian revolution during the past years has not recorded a victory in any other country.
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Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think.
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A man becomes successful by repressing his feelings, not expressing his feelings.
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Why are we so hard on one another? I wonder. Hadn’t the world already given us challenges enough?
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I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
