Clemantine Wamariya Quotes
Everything I own in my closet has a story. Stuff is not just stuff - things were given to me with love.
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I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.
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I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.
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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
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I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.
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A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.
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The devil made me do it.
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I was born in East Germany, before the wall came down. We sort of escaped, I guess. I grew up all over the place. Germany, London, back and forth between Minnesota and Germany. I was sort of an army brat, but not in the army.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
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I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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I danced with Jacques d'Amboise. At that time, he was the tallest man in the company. So it was a different kind of choreography. It was lyrical.
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A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
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Never give up, and never give in.
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I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.
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I don't have a car in Manhattan because you have to choose between a car and an apartment. It's that expensive.
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You spend enough time with someone, you're going to have your run-ins.
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I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.
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You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end.
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In high school, girls started wearing high-waisted pants with their shirts tucked into them. I don't get what that's about.
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Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.
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Everything I own in my closet has a story. Stuff is not just stuff - things were given to me with love.
