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  • Grace Kelly Personally, I wouldn't go anywhere important without my own favorite Hermès black bag... I have my jewelry with me in case something happens and I suddenly have to dress up. For me, going out without that purse would seem almost like going out naked. Well, almost.
    Source: Charlotte Chandler - It's Only a Movie: Alfred Hitchcock
    Grace Kelly
    American actress (later Princess Gracia) (1929 - 1982)
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  • Winston Churchill Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Joseph Roux Philosophers call God ''the great unknown'' ''The great misknown'' is more like it!
    Joseph Roux
    French priest, writer and poet (1834 - 1905)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Alice James Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Richard P. Feynman Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
    Richard P. Feynman
    American theoretical physicist and Nobel price winner (1918 - 1988)
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  • Carmen Kass Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.
    Carmen Kass
     
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  • Samuel Johnson Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Charles Baudelaire Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Billy Collins Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Anthony Hecht Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.
    Anthony Hecht
    American poet (1923 - 2004)
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  • Bruce Sterling Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Robertson Davies Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Carey Mulligan Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!
    Carey Mulligan
    English actress (1985 - )
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  • Carey Mulligan Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!'
    Carey Mulligan
    English actress (1985 - )
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  • Anzia Yezierska Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
    Anzia Yezierska
    Jewish-American novelist (1880 - 1970)
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  • Margaret Thatcher Power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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