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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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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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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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 am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.
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Wonder Woman is a fighter, better than most, but it's what she fights for that is important. It's her vision of a future of peace and acceptance that makes her the right ambassador for everyone.
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I don't want any competition; I've finally made it! I don't want any young bucks knocking me off and taking my job, so stay in school! Stay in school and get a nice job working in an office!
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I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.
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Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
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The press called me a billionaire, and my wife came up and said I must be squirreling money away.
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Problems cannot all be solved, for, as they are solved, new aspects are continually revealed: the historian opens the way, he does not close it.
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In the South, you don't say exactly what's going on or what's on your mind.
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It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art must become more fully American life before her leisure can become culture.
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I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.
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I leave my heart on the court every night. I earn my keep.
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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.
