Lincoln Steffens Quotes
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
Sadhu Vaswani -
There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
Ian Wace -
America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
Maggie Q -
I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
Karlie Kloss -
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
Rachael Taylor
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One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
Eden Riegel -
When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
Kara DioGuardi -
In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.
Carl Jung -
A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
Harold E. Hughes -
I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
Maggie Smith -
I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
Halle Berry
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
Victoria Secunda -
When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.
E. L. Doctorow -
At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
Salman Rushdie -
I remember once doing a gig in Ireland, and there was a woman jumping around and screaming, 'I don't know what this is but I love it!' I thought that was a nice compliment.
Imelda May -
Until he announced his immigration policy last week, Obama had the support of most Hispanic voters - but not the enthusiasm they had shown for him in 2008. That may be changing in part because of the decision not to deport young immigrants whose undocumented parents brought them here as children.
Mara Liasson
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There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.
Jeffrey Bernard -
Let me tell you something: I love the Yankees. And let me tell you why: because without the Yankees, there is nobody to hate.
Denis Leary -
The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.
Carl Levin -
These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one.
Joel Coen -
Could we design an all-glass building with internal channels and networks for airflow and water circulation? Can we surpass the great modern tradition of discrete formal and functional partitions and generate an all-in-one building skin?
Neri Oxman -
The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.
Lincoln Steffens