Agnes Smedley Quotes
Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.
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Our suspicions are being confirmed that Nashi will serve as a cover for storm brigades that will use violence against democratic organisations.
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I love Lancome's L'Absolu Rouge lipstick, as it lasts. Unless you spend the whole night snogging, you won't need to reapply it.
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I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
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To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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I'm not really into weight training.
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I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.
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It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
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I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it negative or positive, it has enforced and reinforced my life in some aspect.
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Warnings about children being overscheduled, racing from one enriching activity to the next, first surfaced in the early 20th century.
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I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.
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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
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I'm a big believer that your life is basically a sum of all the choices you make. The better your choices, the better opportunity to lead a happy life.
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Ideas matter, policy matters.
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You sit at a fashion show in another country and you watch all of these paparazzi swarm around a celebrity, only they're a local celebrity, maybe a soap opera star, so you don't have any idea who they are, you just know they're famous to a bunch of stunned Italians. It's weird, because when you can't identify who a celebrity is, they can just look like overslicked stand-ins. That might sound awful, but what I mean is, when you think about most actresses, even in Hollywood, they really aren't that fascinating or glamorous in their own right once you strip away the flashbulbs.
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It was a shock to my system leaving 'The West Wing' and going to 'Psych.' I remember being like, 'What are you doing?' when James Roday first started improvising. Steve and the writing staff write it that way. They leave gaps.
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Libertarian presidential candidate André Marrou's idea is that "government power is opposed to individual liberty." Must we still debate such sophomoric notions?... Besides, liberty, although very important, is not the only value.
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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
