Diana Ross Quotes
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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When you have a limited resource and you have a lot of people wanting that resource, then those who get more justify as to why they got more, and those who get less say they have been treated badly.
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The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.
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I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
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Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
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I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
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I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
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I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
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To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.
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The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
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Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.
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Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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That's the problem with soaps, of course. The stories never end. They can go on and on and on.
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When you have a system that increases border security funding by about 300 percent, and it only increases funding for immigration courts by 70 percent, you have a disaster.
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In order to arrive at a personal style, you have to have a technique to begin with.
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Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.
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I keep a great organiser, I try to keep my priorities in the right place.
