Clemence Poesy Quotes
I've been wearing jeans all my life. I remember my first denim as a kid because my mum used to buy me OshKosh overalls.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
Barbara Bush
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
Katha Pollitt
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What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around when Ray Guy was around, are deceased. And some of the reporters don't remember Ray Guy. He should have been in the Hall of Fame 15 years ago.
Gale Sayers
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
Adam Lambert
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I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.
FKA twigs
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I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.
Dallas Roberts
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
Patricia Clarkson
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
Nathan Fillion
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Baltasar Gracian
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
Barbara Smith
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
Walter Pater
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
R. Kelly
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
Fiona Apple
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It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
Harrison Ford
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I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.
Manolo Blahnik
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
Jack Osbourne
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
Vera Farmiga
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
Kate Brown
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And you wouldn't believe what a small world it is because everyone seems to know that I was a Playmate. You wouldn't be scared of me, would you?
Marliece Andrada
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Video games have always been a part of my life.
Jenova Chen
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The friendship of a great man is a favor of the gods.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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“These bible people remind me of another calamity similar to this missionary scheme, when our people, or any christian power would go to Africa for the pious purpose of kidnapping negroes, the mother would cry out to her children "run, run, the christians are coming," so when ever you hear "bibles," run for your life, if you do not want your pockets picked, or to be insulted and slandered as I was... and if you hear "hopeful conversions" or the "gospel," don't stop to look behind you.”
Anne Royall
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I've been wearing jeans all my life. I remember my first denim as a kid because my mum used to buy me OshKosh overalls.
Clemence Poesy