Aviva Quotes
I love being married: you don't have to go out, you don't have to be on the prowl, and you don't have to be on the matchmaking sites.
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I'm a perfectionist to a fault.
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I think anyone who behaves boorishly but without a good sense of humor is not as fun to watch.
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I always have my Laura Mercier foundation and concealer with me, and I love the Rimmel Kate Moss lipsticks. My favourite is shade 08, because it's just such a lovely natural colour with just a bit of pink to it.
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She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
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Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.
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Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
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The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.
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My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him.
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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
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To retire is to begin to die.
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I work out every day, but my idea is to make something short. I work out a maximum half hour. I only do like 20 minutes of cardio, and I do some stretching and some light weights, and I'm out of there.
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Florida is one of the first states that sort of gives the legislature a very clear criteria for re-drawing electoral district maps. Basically, all the criteria do is tell the legislators that you can't draw a seat that helps yourself or a political party. That's really critical.
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Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.
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Certain kinds of people will always have an issue with my music. But that's fine; it's OK. I don't want to be the McDonald's of music. I don't want to not turn anyone off. If you were everybody's cup of tea, you'd probably be boring.
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The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.
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Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is.
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Parallelism: Propositions about the behavior of individuals and the performance of institutions that have been tested in laboratory microeconomies apply also to nonlaboratory environments where similar ceteris paribus conditions prevail.
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Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player.
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Artificial lighting, air-conditioning, and automobiles, all powered by fossil fuels, swaddle us in our giddy modernity. In our ergonomic chairs and acoustical-panel cubicles, we sit cozy as kings atop 300 years of flaming carbon.
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One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
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From the way that we build cars or going after space travel, I get excited about the transportation space because it's the second-highest household expense after housing.
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Domestic travel and tourism-related spending has reached $1 trillion a year.
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I love being married: you don't have to go out, you don't have to be on the prowl, and you don't have to be on the matchmaking sites.
