Charles Dickens Quotes
Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.
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At the end of the day, my legacy will not be modelling but my cosmetics line.
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I love Feist. I love Francoise Hardy. She was a French singer-songwriter in the '60s who was pretty huge. I think I'm drawn to her sincerity. I love Fiona Apple, too - she's quirky and really honest in her lyrics.
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It takes a career, a lifetime, to build up a reputation, and only one misstep for it all to crumble away.
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Change has no constituency—and a perceived revolution has even less.
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Let wise men piece the world together with wisdom Or poets with holy magic. Hey-di-ho.
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All living things on earth are kindred.
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It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.
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Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!
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Before I start, like to make sure I'm smart. Gather my composure, rather my swagger and my couture.Pivot my fitted, then begin to rivet, with a change of lyric. In other words, I reposition how I sit it. Then make you feel it, like I mispronounced 'filet.'
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Sorry my life is so much more bitchin' than yours. I planned it this way.
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I am not an action painter. Each painting is an act. The result of action and the fulfillment of action.. .No painting stops with itself, is complete of itself. It is a continuation of previous paintings and is renewed in successive ones..
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I was a waitress for six years in New York. I actually got fascinated to see how fast and how good a waitress I could be. I was doing it, so I tried to do it as well as I could.
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I'm all about surprises. If you watch a horror movie, and it's called 'Kiss Land,' it's probably going to be the most terrifying thing you've ever seen in your life.
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Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.
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Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.
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I grew up looking to all those Jewish athletes for inspiration.
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The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president or the lawyer.
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When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.
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I love Latino culture but I hate the concept of "la raza." It is a divisive mindset.
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My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother.
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Historically, it took a long time before the court took any women law clerks. Finally, it did, but the numbers have never matched very effectively the percentages of law graduates out of graduating classes. We have far more than we ever did before and it's continued to grow, but it isn't a nice match yet.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They are like a child who tries to eat a little, honey smeared on the edge of a knife. The amount is by no means sufficient to appease his appetite, but he runs the risk of wounding his tongue.
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Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.
