Lillian Hellman Quotes
There are people who eat earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are people who stand around and watch them eat it. (Softly) Sometimes I think it ain't right to stand and watch them do it.

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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
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We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.
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If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a premiere, it's good to have a makeup artist because they know what they're doing.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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Recording a song for a film doesn't take much time; it's hardly an hour's job, but concerts are constant, and so is travelling, so I've to take time out to work on my albums because I'm passionate about creating my own music. When you love something dearly, you set your priorities accordingly.
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I feel like something I've wanted to do for a really long time, in a feature film or anything, is playing a rocker. Somewhere where I can be on a stage and have a guitar or a microphone and just kind of jam out.
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I also surround myself with people who make me laugh. If I'm not laughing, it upsets my day.
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I think the most important thing to understand about credit derivatives and their use at JPMorgan is they served a number of different purposes. First and foremost, they were a tool which initially was seen as being useful in managing the bank's own risk management challenges.
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'T is woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.
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People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.
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There is a saying in entrepreneurship that your early employees are all commandos. Commandos are people who can do almost everything well: emails, strategy, code, design.
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There are people who eat earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are people who stand around and watch them eat it. (Softly) Sometimes I think it ain't right to stand and watch them do it.