Anita Loos Quotes
It's true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations; to a Frenchman sex provides the most economical way to have fun. The French are a logical race.
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I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.
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A lot of people don't get second chances.
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I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.
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Coming from where I came from, I was born naked with no teeth. Now I have everything.
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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.
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We are only peripherally tied to the lives of others. It takes a long long time for us to become deeply involved with others, and for some this never happens.
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The wise individual doesn't get too attached to any of life's pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it's bad for him.
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Well, I'm working all the time to stay out of trouble!
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The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.
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It's true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations; to a Frenchman sex provides the most economical way to have fun. The French are a logical race.
