Marilyn Monroe Quotes
The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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Anything scarce will ultimately be tokenized because the benefits of digitization and increased liquidity are so great.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.
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I've always loved projects where I can combine acting and music.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe.
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If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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I think the soul of an entrepreneur is to keep trying until you find the successful idea.
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I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
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The vocals are the very last thing I do. So, it's kinda the opposite: with country. it's singing and guitar first, but with rock, I worry about the riff and music, vocals last.
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The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.
