Louise Brooks Quotes
After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with expensive names.
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By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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I'll sleep when I'm dead.
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
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By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
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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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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
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It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.
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Every time you see a new paradigm emerge, it's always new vendors that lead it. I can't think of one case where an incumbent led a paradigm shift.
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If you believe that the greatest challenge you've got is credibility, then the way you get that is you earn it, right? That's not something that any set of policy makers can bestow.
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You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.
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After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with expensive names.
