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People often become actresses because of something they...

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

Quote by Bette Davis about nation

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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about truth, nothing

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If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

Quote by George Herbert

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I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

Quote by Jackie Collins about music, stars

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This is man’s self and no matter how much man would like to become a perfect being that would belong to Good he will realize that this perfection will always face the need to be referenced precisely to Evil in order to exist.

Quote by Sorin Cerin about humans, order, self-control, man, need, being, good, good luck, face

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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you...

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about pleasure, immortality, life, nation

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All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

Quote by Buddha about humans, thinking, shadow, pain, happiness, man

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To teach is to learn twice.

To teach is to learn twice.

Quote by Joseph Joubert

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Your background and environment is with you for life. No...

Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.

Quote by Sean Connery about question, immortality, life

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I did all the dialect work, all my character work...

I did all the dialect work, all my character work completely by myself.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about work, character

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Darmstadt was in ruins. It really disturbed me to see a...

Darmstadt was in ruins. It really disturbed me to see a country like that, demolished to such a degree. Terrifying.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about country

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I pay tax wherever I work. The only difference with my...

I pay tax wherever I work. The only difference with my situation is I'm resident in the Bahamas. Everywhere I work I pay the tax.

Quote by Sean Connery about work

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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

Quote by Walter Pater about experience, personality, real estate

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There are two ways of being happy, one is to pretend that...

There are two ways of being happy, one is to pretend that are a fool and the second is to be a genuine fool.

Quote by Enrique Jardiel Poncela about happiness, being

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No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

Quote by Eugen Ionescu about sadness, vice, human imperfections, human-nature, absolute, pain, society, fear, death

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Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience

Quote by Blaise Pascal about things, instinct, experience, nature

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Forgetting is taught by the most experienced professor, ...

Forgetting is taught by the most experienced professor, the old man!

Quote by Maria Pal about forgetness, old, olderness, man

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You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake. This is your...

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake. This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about time, immortality, life

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The 1st panacea of a mismanaged nation is inflation of...

The 1st panacea of a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the 2nd is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; a permanent ruin.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about prosperity, nation, war

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I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into...

I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about writing, nation

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I want to describe the psychological state of the people...

I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.

Quote by Orhan Pamuk about state, city, nation

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I understand fully that the IRA's most recent positive...

I understand fully that the IRA's most recent positive contribution to the peace process was in the context of a comprehensive agreement.

Quote by Gerry Adams about peace

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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty...

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about poverty

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All of my problems are rather complicated, I need an...

All of my problems are rather complicated, I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

Quote by Manuel Puig about problems, need

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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about family, society, personality

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If we go out there and do our level best in every game, ...

If we go out there and do our level best in every game, then I will take my chances that the results will be more good than bad.

Quote by Stuart Pearce about games, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

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Don't argue, this means that you are getting older.

Don't argue, this means that you are getting older.

Quote by Aurel Scobioala about opinion

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The serge only eats the customer's garment.

The serge only eats the customer's garment.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy

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Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of...

Quote by Papa John Paul II about nation, slavery, temptation, reality, man

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When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some...

When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.

Quote by Placido Domingo about nothing

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- I heard people laugh when it comes to you - I laugh at...

- I heard people laugh when it comes to you - I laugh at them, they laugh to me

Quote by Toma Caragiu about moral, nation

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It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it...

Quote by Michael Jackson about lie, man, truth, nation

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One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.

Quote by Oksana Baiul about architecture, water, nation

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If life is an illusion, what can its truth be?

If life is an illusion, what can its truth be?

Quote by Sorin Cerin about truth, wisdom, immortality, life

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If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar...

If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't worry about what anybody thinks.

Quote by Brad Paisley about worry

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Adam laid himself down in Paradise to sleep While from him was taken a wife to keep. Adam poor father of creation’s best Your first taste of sleep was your last of rest.

Quote by Matthias Claudius about religion, sleep, paradise, creation, wife

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You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's...

You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done.

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about shame

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Hot garrison chow is better than hot C-rations which, in turn, are better than cold C-rations, which are better than no food at all. All of these, however, are preferable to cold rice balls even if they do have little pieces of fish in them.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about war, food

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Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become...

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

Quote by Walter Bagehot

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What I did initially was, on the whole, literary and...

What I did initially was, on the whole, literary and romantic.

Quote by Julie Christie about literary critic

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Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to...

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

Quote by Albert Camus about law, nature, instinct, rules

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Life is made up of marble and mud.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne about life, immortality

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