Wallace Shawn Quotes
I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.
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If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.
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Expenditures rise to meet income.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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Things are looking up, and hopefully, I will be doing good roles in both Hollywood and Bollywood.
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I've been a little bit Las Vegas and casino-obsessed. So, I love some trashy glamour... and I think nothing's trashier or more glamorous than a bit of a sheer number!
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'
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The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.
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Funny, I never shopped. Even my jewelry - not a piece of my jewelry I bought for me.
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Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.
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Working 24 hours a day isn't enough anymore. You have to be willing to sacrifice everything to be successful, including your personal life, your family life, maybe more. If people think it's any less, they're wrong, and they will fail.
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My agenda is not to reassure anybody outside Lebanon.
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We encourage failure among young men; we celebrate it... It's a badge of honour for a man. Yet attach those same words and experiences to a woman, and society writes her off.
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I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.
