Quotes 1821 till 1840 of 2853.
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One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.
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One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally gets into people's heads as they listen in the car. You don't have to memorize a Paul Simon song; it's just in your head, and you can sing along. With a poem, you have to will yourself to memorize it.
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One of the most important things for me in terms of my working method is doubt. I get very insecure about my ideas. And I don't say 'insecure' in kind of a paranoid way. I mean just: 'Are they good enough?' 'Is this the right thing to do?' I really beat myself up over that.
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One of the most satisfying experiences I know is fully to appreciate an individual in the same way I appreciate a sunset. When I look at a sunset... I don't find myself saying, 'Soften the orange a little more on the right hand corner, and put a bit more purple along the base, and use a little more pink in the cloud color...' I don't try to control a sunset. I watch it with awe as it unfolds.
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One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.
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One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
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One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.
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One thing you don't want to do as a host is be running around all evening. Do as much as you can ahead of time, so all you have to do is grill the main ingredients.
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Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
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Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.
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Organizations can get in the way of innovation, because if people are all bound up, and if they don't know if they get to make the decision or somebody else, and if they do, what happens to them, and so on and so forth.
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Other people's perspective, just seeing the sexy image, might be that I take my sexuality very seriously. But I really don't. I like being sexy. It's fun, and I have had a nice little career off it.
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Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.
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Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.''
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Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
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Our politicians don't say anything anymore: they just refute and assert.
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