Angela Bowie Quotes
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I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.
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The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.
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I would hate to look back on my life and go, 'You know, I wanted to do a rock n' roll album. I should have, and I never did.'
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I am honoured to have been chosen for an Amitabh Bachchan film.
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I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
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Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to entertain. These books are not concerned with style or creativity - instead they are successful because they are repetitive and follow a template that readers enjoy.
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One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
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We can never say it often or loudly enough: Immigrants and refugees revitalize and renew America.
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Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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We are what we believe we are.
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It is a frequent vice of radical polemic to assert, and even to believe, that once you have found the lowest motive for an antagonist, you have identified the correct one. - 'Reactionary Prophet', The Atlantic, April 2004
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Sadness is weak; I don't believe in weakness.
