Quotes 361 till 380 of 692.
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My skirt fell off on stage during a performance of Hairspray on Broadway, revealing my fat suit over my own natural fat suit. I turned to the audience and said, 'Now you know why I spent six years in a square.'
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My wife was born and raised in Italy until she was about 9, and then she came to America, and her mom was a great cook, and they have great recipes, and whenever her mom would come into town, we would have all these friends just randomly showing up at our house, and eventually we figured out why. They wanted Mama's cooking.
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Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
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Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
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Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.
Pensees (1669) -
Nefertiti is like Athena born from the brow of Zeus, a head-heavy armored goddess. She is beautiful but desexed.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.
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No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.
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No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
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No man is born unto himself alone; who lives unto himself, he lives to none.
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No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
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No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.
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No one is born a good citizen or a good democrat or a good leader; it takes time and education.
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No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous, but it is symptomatic of our overpoliticized climate that such assertions are given instant credence by gay activists and their media partisans. I think what gay men are remembering is that they were born different.
Vamps and Tramps (1994)
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