Elizabeth Bibesco Quotes
The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows!
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Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.
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I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.
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The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.
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Of course, eating broccoli raw, nutritionally and aesthetically speaking, is no doubt the best way of all. Raw broccoli makes a delectable salad when sliced into thin strips on a mandolin, marinated in lemon-mustard vinaigrette, then tossed with toasted pecans or hazelnuts, halved cherry tomatoes, and fresh minced basil.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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The best compliment we ever got about the show was from a Korean veteran who was unable to talk about his war experience with his wife until 'M*A*S*H.' While watching the show, he was able to lean over to his wife and say, 'See, honey, that's the way it was.'
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I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.
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Working from home as a mother is the worst of everything. You don't have clear boundaries. The kids can get used to you going to work; they can't get used to you ignoring them. And work sometimes gets the message you're not as committed.
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These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.
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I love entertaining people, and I want to pursue it.
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I find that, maybe because I'm also a singer, I hear music in characters all the time, even if they don't sing. I hear what affects me in my heart.
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We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
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I found that doing Pilates consistently three to four times a week had an amazing effect on really toning and shaping a tight waist and legs.
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I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.
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Within the black community, roughly 60 percent of children are born to single moms. Moms don't have the emotional wherewithal to deal with their children. Their English is atrocious. Their speaking is atrocious. The dropout rate is horrendous.
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I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.
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Kosovo is a small country but it also has a lot of riches that were granted to us by God.
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I've been DJing mostly, and most DJs end up producing. That's just me.
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An artist is a prophet and seer, not a paint craftsman or design maker, or reporter or entertainer... the artist has the superiorly searching perception with which that world outside of man's contamination can be penetrated and the truth drawn out from it.
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There are so many elements flying in so many different directions that you really have to go with what feels like instinctively. The nature of the universe is fairly whimsical and nonsensical. In the most somber, beatific peacefulness there's complete chaos and maniacal laughter. I think music that doesn't reflect that is boring.
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The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's funeral because they all know I'm sick. I am getting buildings named after me and awards and stuff.
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I've done a really bad job with teaching daughter to put on makeup, but I have taught her how to put on lipstick.
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Never face reality unless your reality is just the way you want it to be.
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The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows!
