Alice Temperley Quotes
I don't try to be in fashion; I don't try to follow trends. You just end up out of fashion that way.
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.
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No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
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The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.
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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.
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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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The exposure I have had to beautiful materials across the world, from Japan to Italy, enables me to pull design ideas together. This, combined with years of historical research, has created a great fountain of ideas for me.
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I really would like to start a family as well. Whether I can balance the two or have to decide one or the other way, I'm not sure what will happen.
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I've often wondered if the trade-off for growing up in the relative newness and freshness of the West Coast was befuddlement when it comes to historical preservation. We don't have many old things, and we don't really know what to do with the few that are around when our default response is to compost or field burn.
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I don't try to be in fashion; I don't try to follow trends. You just end up out of fashion that way.
