Lady Randolph Churchill Quotes
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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By 9:30 at night, I go to bed.
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I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away.
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Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.
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I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.
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For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
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NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.
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I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.
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I wanted to be a scientist, but I wanted to go into space. They are not mutually exclusive.
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I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.
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Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.
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I always wanted it, the fame. When it come, I didn't want to let it go.
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Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.
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We can't accept that it's O.K. if only some kids get to go to college.
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Capsizes kind of go hand in hand with 49er racing. I've had four to five capsizes in races and still won the event. It's just the nature of this type of sailing.
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This hand is not very active always, because it was in this hand that I carried my books. My carrying hand was always my strongest. Now I think my other hand has developed more muscles from signing all those autographs.
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I remember the first time I saw Robert De Niro at a party. I didn't want to run over and shake his hand. I wanted to admire him from a distance. Later, I ended up making a movie with him, and that was fantastic.
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Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.
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A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.
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It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.
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My characters have to talk, or they're out. They audition in early scenes. If they can't talk, they're given less to do, or thrown out.
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We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
