Marie Helvin Quotes
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Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades.
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People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
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The media can allege corruption, but if I do the same against the media, I am gagging freedom of expression.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.
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For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
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The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on.
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Desire creates its own object.
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I didn't mean to live in Portland. It was kind of an accident - I mean, the equivalent of my car breaking down there and me being like, 'Well... I guess this is what I'm doing. I just can't find a better alternate.'
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Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
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Mo Udall didn't want the presidency bad enough. He was too sane. He was a marvelous guy, but you had the feeling there was another Udall outside his body watching the candidate Udall who was too extravagant, telling him to cut it out.
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I can't think of any more powerful moment than when you stand on a stage.
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I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my 'Happy People' record. She said that she thought it represented the sprit of her husband. The license is from California. I get inspired every time I look at it.
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But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
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I didn't realize that everyone was so attracted to my hair. I thought, well what about my music?
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'
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No society can possibly be built upon a denial of individual freedom.It is contrary to the very nature of man. Just as a man will not grow horns or a tail, so will he not exist as man if he has no mind of his own. In reality even those who do not believe in the liberty of the individual believe in their own.
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No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
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Truth is … one approach to the attainment of the good, but in and of itself, it is neither the good nor the beautiful … Socrates, Pascal, and others regarded knowledge of the truth with regard to purposeless objects as incongruous with the good … by exposing deception, truth destroys illusion, which is the principle attribute of beauty.
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Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.
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You are sure your enemy is stupid because he doesn't do things as you would do them. It will make you careless, and your enemy will surprise you.
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I wasn't the cutest or the most talented, but I could get through the question-and-answer period.
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As the years go by, you get to know yourself better and learn what works for you.
