Ava Gardner Quotes
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When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
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You never get fans hanging out on movie sets. It just never happens.
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Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little.
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I've always been a creative speller and never achieved good grades in school. I graduated from high school but didn't have the opportunity to attend college, so I did what young women my age did at the time - I married.
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If there's something I want, I go for it. I just think about how I'm going to go for it.
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A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.
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I don't have an ego; I'm not egotistical or anything like that.
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I do try and curb my mouth, but I find it really hard. I wonder how many jobs I've talked myself out of!
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A modest dose of self-love is entirely healthy - who would want to live in a world where everyone hated themselves? But taken too far, it soon becomes poisonous.
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Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.
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The whole question of God and what God is, and whether it's a blond guy with a beard, I don't know... I don't know that. Do I believe that there's something greater at work than the sum of humanity? Yeah, I think so.
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Well when I woke up this morning,There was a note upon my door, Said don't make me no coffee Babe,'Cause I won't be back no more, And that's all she wrote, Dear John, I've sent your saddle home.
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The home studio has taken a bite. People are choosing cheapness over quality. They just don't want to spend the money.
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Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.
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We believe a scientist because he can substantiate his remarks, not because he is eloquent and forcible in his enunciation. In fact, we distrust him when he seems to be influencing us by his manner.
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China and the U.S. are the two largest importers of oil. They are the two largest emitters of carbon.
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Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.
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We have a history in country music of writing about the darker side of things - maybe not as much in modern times, but there's a lot of cheating and self-deprecation. We sort it out in song, in country music, as a genre.
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I was making love to this girl and she started crying. I said, "Are you going to hate yourself in the morning?" She said, "No, I hate myself now."
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I hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.
