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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My people have very subtle slang, inflections and ways of saying things that has little to do with words. If you're from the same place, you'll feel the jargon and know exactly what's happening. Same with any neighborhood cat. What he sees and hears and feels and lives makes him what he is. That's what blues is.
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My main piece of advice would be don't worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also don't be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and don't be afraid.
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Don't worry about the pressure or the responsibility. Just live in it, have fun, and when everything seems to be going right, just stay humble and remember your family.
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It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.
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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.
