Marilyn French Quotes
Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
Quotes to Explore
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I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
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With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours.
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The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!
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What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
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As a child, I went to peace and ERA marches on the back of my mom and grandmother. Through them I learned that I wanted to find a way to make the world a more kind, compassionate place.
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Computation, storage, and communications capacity are in the hands of practically every connected person - and these are the basic physical capital means necessary for producing information, knowledge and culture, in the hands of something like 600 million to a billion people around the planet.
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I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.
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There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.
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You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.
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I believe it's a woman's right to decide what she wants to wear and if a woman can go to the beach and wear nothing, then why can't she also wear everything?
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I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?
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A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.
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I want people to know their palate is a snowflake. We all like different things. Why should we all have the same taste in wines?
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Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
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Why can't I just eat my waffle?
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A scholar's business is to add to what is known. That is all. But it is capable of giving the very greatest satisfaction, because knowledge is good. It does not have to look good or even sound good or even do good. It is good just by being knowledge. And the only thing that makes it knowledge is that it is true. You can't have too much of it and there is no little too little to be worth having. There is truth and falsehood in a comma.
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The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present - and that's not fully valued.
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There are all kinds of sexualities. There are all kinds of ways that people express their sexuality.
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The acquisition of knowledge need not be like listening to the Gregorian chant.
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I would never have written 'Trainspotting' if it hadn't been for this album, 'Raw Power,' and 'Metallic K.O.'
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Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
