![A half-century before Madonna, Gypsy [Rose Lee] understood how to make performance out of desire, how to exploit the very human and eternal instinct to always want most what we'll never have.](/assets/img/quote-photos/a-half-century-before-madonna-gypsy-rose-lee-understood-how-to-make-performanc.jpg)
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rose black one-day
Would it not be better to be dead than to have this horrible fear that Aslan has come and is not like the Aslan we have believed in and longed for? It is as if the sun rose one day and were a black sun. C. S. Lewis
rose thorns life-is
My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns. Bret Michaels
rose use sun
I quite agree with you. The sun is not kind. God should use a rose amber spot. Dewitt Bodeen
rose half distribution-of-wealth
The distribution of wealth is even more unequal than that of income. ...The wealthiest 5% of American households held 54% of all wealth reported in the 1989 survey. Their share rose to 61% in 2010 and reached 63% in 2013. By contrast, the rest of those in the top half of the wealth distribution —families that in 2013 had a net worth between $81,000 and $1.9 million —held 43% of wealth in 1989 and only 36% in 2013. Janet Yellen
rose meditation way
meditation is a way of developing clarity, which allows us to see the precision of daily life situations as well as our thought process so that we can relate with both of them fully and completely. Chogyam Trungpa
roses save soft spirit
Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, / And all, save the spirit of man, is divine. Lord Byron
rose news london
I like BBC news; I like some London news because you can get it earlier then anywhere else. I like Charlie Rose a lot. Brian Grazer
rose gentleman may
I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me. Arthur Conan Doyle
rose lovely lovely-things
What a lovely thing a rose is!
desire may dangerous
A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.
desire recognize satisfy saying
We want to recognize that it is the end of the show without really saying it. But we'll satisfy the audience's desire for a little heart. Ray Romano
desire enforce intention less name
We have no intention and even less desire to enforce this name on everything. Neil MacDonald
desire undermine whatsoever
We have no desire whatsoever to in any way erode or undermine constitutional liberties, John Ashcroft
desire imaginable judge neither nor views
We have neither desire, need, nor right to know most of Judge Roberts's views on most imaginable subjects, Ruth Ginsburg
desire alive world
For some reason or other there was in me the desire to see the world clean and fresh and alive, as primitive things are clean and fresh and alive. The so-called documentary picture left me wanting something. Aaron Siskind
desire nasty horrible
There was a desire to see me being nasty and horrible, and of course that's not really me Alan Sugar
desire want wicked-world
What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning. Charlie Chaplin
desire holiness repentance
Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated. Charles Spurgeon
half needed second stop until wait
We wanted to wait until the second half to do what we needed to do to stop him.
half month
We've still got little more than half a month to go, probably three-quarters of a month actually. We've got to keep winning. This thing ain't over yet. Josh Beckett
half linux firsts
I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.) Charles Stross
half kids mean slower swim
When you get to state, half of the kids will swim slower than they did at districts, half are going to go faster. It doesn't mean a whole lot what you see on paper.
half hour meet turn
We used to turn up on the day of the match, meet for half an hour and then go and play,
half manic time
London's so busy, London's manic half the time. Tom Hopper
half safe matter
There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium. David R. Brower
half people prices saying time turn
People are always saying that prices are too high. When they turn out to be right, we anoint them. When they turn out to be wrong, we ignore them. They are typically right and wrong about half the time. Eugene Fama
half dozen needs
A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation. Jane Austen