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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The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.
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For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
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Most days, I still feel like I need to be wearing mascara, eyeliner, have my eyebrows done, have on bronzer - the whole thing! I may as well do it all.
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Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.
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I think if we're going to live in this - in this world - in this technological world where information can be disseminated so quickly, we have to be serious and take firm, strong action against those who are putting American lives at risk. Because this will put people's lives at risk.
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Time to open up a new chapter in life, and to explore a larger centre.
