Elizabeth Bibesco Quotes
There is something very independent about French balloons - you feel you couldn't make a pet of one.
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I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.
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Environmental groups are not completely against dams. We approve of appropriate development.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.
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I don't ever want to stop making country, and I don't want to stop making electronic music, either.
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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If my daughter has a bad dream and wants to get into my bed, I'm a sucker for her sweet face and warm body next to mine, so I let her jump in. I should tell her to go to bed, but secretly I love it.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.
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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
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Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.
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I remember wearing overcoats, hiding in the bushes outside of Abbey Road Studios, waiting for the traffic to clear. As it did, we would drop our overcoats and run out on to the cross walk and strike our poses.
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It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
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Hip-hop is a contact sport.
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Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress.
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If an industrialist can sell his products anywhere in India and the world, why should a farmer not be allowed to do so?
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses, and nymphs and elves.
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There is something very independent about French balloons - you feel you couldn't make a pet of one.
