Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.
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It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
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I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.
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I got into rhythmic gymnastics when I was four years old.
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I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.
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I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work.
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And me I'm in the bathroomcrying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a manwhen you're scared, just like a little kid.
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I'm so much more of an East Coast girl than a West Coast girl.
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Sarcasm all around the world is always against right wing and against people in power. That's the definition of political sarcasm.
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I think teen girls will like 'Geek Charming' because they really focus on the 'populars' and nerdy people and people who are in between the nerds and between the populars. So it really hits every category of what girls are going through in high school.
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Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
