Lillian Russell Quotes
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.
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I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.
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Unlike Milan, Italy's banking capital, or Rome, its religious center, Florence was the place where the rich went to buy goods that would showcase how wealthy they were.
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One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.
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I leave Bud Fox in the canyons of Wall Street, just another ant, one of millions of ants…. We’re all absorbed in this system of capitalism…. You join the collective unconscious.
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He wrote stories about everything he saw, and he saw a lot. He walked through the streets of Brooklyn along the water, or leaned against the store windows on Livingston Street watching people hurrying along, making up stories about this one or that one.
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I want to resume the life of a shy person.
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Well, it's still another two-day competition, so it's really important to show that you're ready. Every meet is really important right now. You've got to keep showing you can hit.
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Time to open up a new chapter in life, and to explore a larger centre.
