Lillie Langtry Quotes
It was so kind of you to mention that I don't wear stays. What's the point? If you squeeze it in at one point, it only comes out at the other.
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The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
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My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.
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My goal was never to win awards. Mine was let me get to a place where I don't have to work. I don't have to do anything I don't want to.
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President Obama was never going repeal Obamacare - he was not going to be brought to his knees with the threat of a government shutdown.
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There are a bunch of songs that I think are beautiful recordings, and I'm proud of them, but I've no interest in listening to them.
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When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.
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As hitters, I think we take for granted at times how good our hands are and just how much the value of truly getting the barrel to the ball is. We don't have to do as much as we think we have to.
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There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
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If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.'
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You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.'
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Teaching is in my blood.
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I went to high school in Stockton, CA.
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It's a great meeting place, community center, art gallery, singles bar, music venue. The record store really covers a lot of ground.
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Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence - helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.
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First we try to preserve ourselves, until we see that we can't. Then we try to preserve our children, until we see we can't. Then we act to preserve our kin, and then our village or tribe, and when we see we can't preserve even them, then we act in order to preserve our memory. And if we can't do that, what is left?
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Our passions are like convulsion-fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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I know how tough it is to stand up to powerful forces that prey on consumers.
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I think a politician would be very, very cool to play. Or an American musician of some sort, or like an American pioneer like the Dohenys or the Rockefellers or something.
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'News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.'
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In the last stage of the spiritual master's life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own hands. In this way the spiritual master can sit down in a solitary place and render nirjana-bhajana.
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The person who designed a robot that could act and think as well as your four-year-old would deserve a Nobel Prize. But there is no public recognition for bringing up several truly human beings.
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I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service.
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It was so kind of you to mention that I don't wear stays. What's the point? If you squeeze it in at one point, it only comes out at the other.
