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"If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to."
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"I have a lot of vanity."
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"The contest of world's tallest skyscraper is a childish thing. Whereas with similar budget, they could construct flying building."
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"'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't."
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"Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth."
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"An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me."
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"It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same way a gun is power."
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"My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town."
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"Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did; nor could the valet of any new-made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliot, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion."
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"Vanity is man's love affair with himself."
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"If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to."
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"Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?"
Survival
"You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition."
Modernity
"After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could."
Sermons
"But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel."
Death
"Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out."
Age
"Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission."
People
"Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples."
Life
"Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route."
Perception
"I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor."
Culture
"I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive."
Chance
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