"I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense, fly to eccentricities to make themselves noted."

-- Horace Walpole

#Men Quotes #Effort Quotes #Style Quotes

“Because it does feel important to say it really doesn't matter what shape you are.”
“Every act of self control leads to a sense of self-respect.”
“You have to act and this is something that happened in abstract expressionism too, it was a discovery particularly in De Kooning's paintings, great paintings. There's a lot of speed in his work and the speed produces things that only speed can produce.”
“All my life, I've stayed at parties too long because I didn't know when to go.”
“There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?”
“You ask me what I'd like to do that I haven't done and I say 'Nothin'!' I haven't any mountains to climb or oceans to swim. I've been an extremely blessed individual. ... I'm not clamorin' for more trinkets. If I were to die tomorrow, I could say I've had a good life.”
“One can shape history as much through the facts one omits as through the facts one includes.”
“My father always told me, you can only be your own best. In other words, if you feel you've done your best, you've done well enough.”

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