Art Buchwald Quotes
A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.
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Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.
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I cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
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You wear fur, it's like you trying to be something you not. You get fur, you can spend the same money on like, 30 jackets.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
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God does arithmetic.
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I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.
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When Princess Diana got married, I was a very little kid, I think. I remember her dress, and I found the dress amazing when I was a kid.
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For a homebody like me, the evolution of gadgets has been a blessing.
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I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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I was constantly being told I shouldn't talk so much about how I was feeling. They seemed to think I was giving too much away to my competitors. Showing signs of weakness. But I've always thought that was rubbish.
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I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.
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Of course, the process of curating is different from art making. Exhibition-making is a process that involves collaboration with various participating artists.
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Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.
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I love the Internet, and I love wasting time on the Internet - even though it sometimes ends up being not being a waste of time.
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I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.
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I had no expectations of white people at all.
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A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.
