Ali Smith Quotes
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I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.
Karen Elson -
Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
Nancy Duarte -
I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!
Abbey Clancy -
My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
Sally Kirkland -
God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
Camille Pissarro -
The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.
Frances O'Grady
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He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
A. J. P. Taylor -
We know that Texas is more than a state. Texas has always been a promise. The promise that where you start has nothing to do with how far you can come.
Wendy Davis -
More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.
Zac Goldsmith -
'Cooking Lucky' is a show for guys - or girls - or really for anyone who is all thumbs in the kitchen and needs some help cooking meals that are so incredibly impressive they make it look like you've been slaving in the kitchen all day when in reality, they are so effortless to put together that even a moron can do it.
Eden Riegel -
Unattractive people are more obsessed with looks.
Rae Dawn Chong -
When I feel off, I read the 'Tao Te Ching' to get my equilibrium right. I started reading it in the eleventh grade.
Eddie Huang
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I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.
Calvin Trillin -
L.A.'s a great city in a lot of ways. There's a lot of great weather here. I know some good people.
Tahmoh Penikett -
I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.
Larry David -
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
Salman Rushdie -
Hexapodia as the key insight...I haven’t had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive.) Is it true that humans have six legs?
Vernor Vinge -
'At Gundar we conceive 'innocence' as a positive quality, not merely an insipid absence of guilt,' stated the Nolde. 'We are not the fools that certain untidy ruffians might suppose.'
Jack Vance
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He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated.
Edward Coke -
At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.
Olympia Snowe -
An Indian is an Indian regardless of the degree of Indian blood or which little government card they do or do not possess.
Wilma Mankiller -
Cyber-enabled theft of trade secrets by state actors in China has emerged as a major threat to our economic and, thus, national security.
Max Baucus -
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.
John Maynard Keynes -
I went to the top of Vesuvius and looked in.
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