Horace

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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
Horace

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Horace

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
Horace

A picture is a poem without words.
Horace

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
Horace

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
Horace

A word once uttered can never be recalled.
Horace

A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
Horace

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Horace

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.
Horace

Anger is a short madness.
Horace

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.
Horace

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
Horace

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
Horace

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.
Horace

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
Horace

Don't think, just do.
Horace

Every old poem is sacred.
Horace

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.
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Michelle Williams Channels Marilyn Monroe on and off Screen

Michelle Williams dazzles in Dior

It's official: Michelle Williams is no longer Miss Prim. After seasons of demure dresses, the star of My Week with Marilyn revealed some decidedly Monroe-esque cleavage in a dazzling Dior gown at the New York Film Festival afterparty for her new film. The actress tackles the daunting role of the iconic sex symbol, Marilyn Monroe, alongside Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Derek Jacobi and Harry Potter star Emma Watson. My Week with Marilyn hits theatres on Nov. 4.

Michelle also wore Dior at last year's NYFF screening of Blue Valentine, a role that earned her an Oscar nomination. Will this be the year she gets more than just a nomination?

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Critics are already raving over the film and her delicately introspective interpretation of the real woman inside the silver screen star, who struggled with insecurity, men, alcohol and drugs until her death from an overdose in 1962. The film is certainly enviably timed for a high profile since next year is the 50th anniversary of Monroe’s mysterious death. Talk about a built in Oscar awareness campaign. And her image is already experiencing a cultural renewal.

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For starters, there's the October cover of Vogue which features Michelle Williams photographed by Annie Leibovitz. Then there's a book "Intimate Exposures" by Susan Bernard which features unpublished photos by her father, Bruno Bernard, the photog behind that iconic upskirt on the subway grate shot. And a new NBC series Smash, about a Monroe-themed Broadway musical, will air in February.

VIDEO: 'My Week With Marilyn': Michelle Williams Takes on Monroe

Marilyn will also invade the retail marketplace. The Authentic Brands Group recently acquired the rights to Monroe’s likeness, image, estate and several photographic portfolios, including Bernard’s.They also plan upscale Marilyn Monroe lines of Nova Wines, Dreamwear lingerie, even Monroe merch for a skateboard company called Alien Workshop. The company has also licensed the new Christian Dior ad campaign and the commercial starring Charlize Theron — who bumps into Monroe in a dressing room — that first aired during the primetime Emmys.

We're gonna go out a limb and predict that 2012 will also be a very good year for Marilyn impersonators.

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Earl Mac Rauch

Showing quotations 1 to 2 of 2 total And remember, no matter where you go, there you are. Earl Mac Rauch, from "Buckaroo Bansai"Remember, no matter where you go, there you are. Earl Mac Rauch, from "Buckaroo Bansai"

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Honore de Balzac

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A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.
Honore De Balzac

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
Honore de Balzac

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
Honore de Balzac

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
Honore De Balzac

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
Honore de Balzac

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
Honore de Balzac

A mother who is really a mother is never free.
Honore de Balzac

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Honore de Balzac

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.
Honore de Balzac

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore de Balzac

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
Honore de Balzac

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Honore de Balzac

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
Honore de Balzac

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
Honore de Balzac

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
Honore de Balzac

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.
Honore De Balzac

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
Honore de Balzac

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
Honore de Balzac

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
Honore de Balzac

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
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Napoleon Bonaparte

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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A Constitution should be short and obscure.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A picture is worth a thousand words.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A true man hates no one.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Ability is nothing without opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte

All religions have been made by men.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
Napoleon Bonaparte

An army marches on its stomach.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
Napoleon Bonaparte

England is a nation of shopkeepers.
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Biography
Type: Leader
Nationality: French
Born: August 15, 1769
Died: May 5, 1821

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Thomas Jefferson

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Ronald Reagan

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A people free to choose will always choose peace.
Ronald Reagan

A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
Ronald Reagan

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
Ronald Reagan

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Ronald Reagan

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
Ronald Reagan

Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.
Ronald Reagan

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.
Ronald Reagan

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
Ronald Reagan

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Ronald Reagan

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
Ronald Reagan

Don't be afraid to see what you see.
Ronald Reagan

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.
Ronald Reagan

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
Ronald Reagan

Facts are stubborn things.
Ronald Reagan

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald Reagan

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Ronald Reagan

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.
Ronald Reagan

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
Ronald Reagan

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
Ronald Reagan

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
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Nationality: American
Born: February 6, 1911
Died: June 5, 2004

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Paul McCartney's Wedding Ring Designer Revealed

Paris, Milan, London and New York may be the world fashion capitals – but Los Angeles wins on the jewelry front! Hollywood jeweler to the stars Neil Lane was the man Paul McCartney and new bride Nancy Shevell went to for their wedding rings.

Lane has provided rings for many other famous couples, including Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony.

Meanwhile, of course, both of their wedding day looks were created by Paul’s daughter Stella McCartney. In fact, Nancy wore Stella’s vegan shoes – as Stella, a vegan, will not wear or work with leather.

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Ogden Nash

Showing quotations 1 to 10 of 10 total A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. Ogden Nash A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. Ogden Nash I think that I shall never see
a billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all. Ogden Nash Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. Ogden Nash Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. Ogden Nash People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it. Ogden NashPeople who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. Ogden Nash Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long. Ogden Nash Candy
Is dandy
But liquor
Is quicker. Ogden Nash, "Reflections on Ice-Breaking"

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Sharon Salzberg

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The Literature Page Showing quotations 1 to 7 of 7 total Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter. Sharon SalzbergAny ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain. Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it. Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention. Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again. Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished. Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it. Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004

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Helen Keller

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All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
Helen Keller

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Helen Keller

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
Helen Keller

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller

College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Helen Keller

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
Helen Keller

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Helen Keller

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen Keller

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
Helen Keller

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
Helen Keller

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Helen Keller

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen Keller

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
Helen Keller

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Helen Keller

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
Helen Keller

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Helen Keller

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
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Joe Martin

Showing quotations 1 to 2 of 2 total If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging. Joe Martin, Mister BoffoThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little. Joe Martin, Porterfield

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Rachel Zoe and Baby Skyler Do All White at the LA Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic

Rachel Zoe, baby Skyler and Jaime King at the Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic

Super stylist and reality TV (The Rachel Zoe Project) star Rachel Zoe brought her 7-month old baby boy Skyler Morrison Berman to Paris with her last week. But she didn’t lug the little lad to the Spring 2012 runway shows. However, she did take her best-dressed baby to the 2nd Annual Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic on Sunday, Oct 9

Skyler and Zoe looked perfectly coordinated in white, the new trend from the Spring 2012 shows as seen on the Louis Vuitton, Stella McCartney, and other designers' runways.

Zoe wore her usual flowing white gown while Skyler sported white leather driving mocassins on Sunday. Before he was born, Zoe admitted that she’d been a bit disappointed (she says she cried for a week)  that she wasn’t having girl. But it looks like she’s making the VERY best of things, dressing her baby boy in countless designer duds.

PHOTOS: Famous Faces at the Paris Spring 2012 Fashion Shows

She told Life & Style  "I'm so obsessed with baby clothes right now. Skyler wears Gucci, Ralph Lauren, Missoni, Armani, Bonpoint and shoes by Bottega Veneta, Hermès and Casadei. I'm going to say his shoe collection is pretty major."

Especially when you consider that the little dude isn’t even walking yet.

Sklyer also has a Louis Vuitton diaper bag. Well, Rachel does. Her new line is available exclusively at Neiman Marcus. And she’s planning .. wait for it.. a baby boys clothing line.

Hope this kid gets his modeling day rate.

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Sinclair Lewis

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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. Sinclair Lewis Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. Sinclair Lewis People will buy anything that is one to a customer. Sinclair Lewis

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Steve Jobs' Iconic Black Turtleneck Sells Out After Death

The black mock turtleneck worn by Steve Jobs is selling at a brisk pace following the Apple co-founder's death last week.

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The Minnesota company that makes it, St. Croix, tells Business Insider (via Gawker) that sales doubled the day aft Jobs' death. Many local stores have run out of the shirt.

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The company's Website is sold out of the $175 shirt in black. It offered to donate $20 the American Cancer society for every one sold; Jobs died after a lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer.

There are plenty of other colors available for sale on the site.

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Job's eponymous authorized biography, written by former Time managing editor Walter Isaacson, is expected to become the year's bestseller when it hits stores in three weeks. Its publish date was moved forward following Jobs' Oct. 5 death.

In the first few hours after Jobs’ death the book jumped 42,000 percent on Amazon, going from 424 to No. 1.

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P. J. O'Rourke

Showing quotations 1 to 16 of 16 total A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat. P. J. O'RourkeA little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. P. J. O'RourkeAlways read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. P. J. O'Rourke Drugs have taught an entire generation of Americans the metric system. P. J. O'RourkeFish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is. P. J. O'Rourke Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs. P. J. O'Rourke Never fight an inanimate object. P. J. O'RourkeSkiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink. P. J. O'RourkeThe mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. P. J. O'Rourke The U.S. Constitution is less than a quarter the length of the owner's manual for a 1998 Toyota Camry, and yet it has managed to keep 300 million of the world's most unruly, passionate and energetic people safe, prosperous and free. P. J. O'RourkeThe weirder you are going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person. P. J. O'RourkeVery little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. P. J. O'RourkeWhen buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. P. J. O'RourkeWith Epcot Center the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life. P. J. O'RourkeThere's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause. P. J. O'Rourke, Parliament of Whores (1991)The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting. P. J. O'Rourke, Modern Manners, 1983

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Kathryn L. Nelson

Showing quotations 1 to of total Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie. Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006 I have made plenty of enemies in my lifetime, but none has ever done me as much injury as I do myself. Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006I have not yet met with a sorrow that could not be borne, nor with one who's passing did not leave me stronger. Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006 I shall not pretend that I do not prefer to have people adore me rather than revile me, but I have always found that it was far easier for me to suffer the disapprobation of others than to amend my behaviour in order to find favour with them. Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006It does not always follow that good men are good fathers. Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006 Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect. Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006 Sometimes it is the quiet observer who see the most. Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour. Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006

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Rihanna Named Esquire Magazine's 'Sexiest Woman Alive'

"It's incredible to see how he pulled out of it the way he did," the singer tells the mag of the Chris Brown incident, and says she's still a fan of his music.

On Tuesday, Esquire magazine released its annual list of the entertainment world's sexiest women, and on top? None other than music's self-proclaimed "good girl gone bad," Rihanna. 

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In the interview, the singer talks about her ex Chris Brown, how she drinks before every concert (to calm her nerves), and how she feels about her sex-fueled show. 

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On the subject of Brown, who infamously physically assaulted her before the 2009 Grammys, Rihanna says she's happy for his success. "It's incredible to see how he pulled out of it the way he did," she tells the magazine. "Even when the world seemed like it was against him, you know? I really like the music he's putting out. I'm a fan of his stuff. I've always been a fan." 

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But, she admits that it took awhile for her to feel like that. "Obviously, I had some resentment toward him for a while, for obvious reasons," she reveals. "But I've put that behind me. It was taking up too much of my time. It was too much anger."

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As for having a reputation for pushing the envelope while onstage, the singer says "At the end of a concert, I don't feel like I've been this sexy thing. Really, I don't even think about it."

Rihanna is joined on the list by a bevy of other beauties, including her mentor, Jay-Z's wife, Beyonce, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, who starred in this summer's Transformers: Dark of the Moon, The Help and Spiderman's Emma Stone, Mila Kunis and Vera Farmiga. 

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Jules Renard

Showing quotations 1 to 10 of 10 total Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. Jules Renard Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. Jules Renard I am not sincere, even when I say I am not. Jules Renard I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. Jules Renard Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. Jules Renard Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none. Jules Renard Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it. Jules RenardThe only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. Jules Renard Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. Jules Renard

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'Mad Men' Actor Debuts Design Book

Mad Men costume designer Janie Bryant had numerous book signings and parties when she put out her style fashion guide last year. Now comes another Mad Men book – but it’s not about fashion.

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Bryan Batt, the actor who played Salvatore Romano in early episodes – he was an ad man for Stirling Cooper, who became a commercial director who eventually gets fired – is releasing a book with Random House called Big, Easy Style.

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Turns out the New Orleans native owns a gift and home accessories shop in the Big Easy called Hazlenut with his partner of 22 years Tom Cianfichi. The store has been featured in the New York Times, House Beautiful, Food and Wine and Town and Country. So this is not just a hobby for Batt, who’s obviously a new hybrid -  actor/decorator.

This Saturday night, October 15, Mad Men star Christina Hendricks and her husband Geoffrey Arend ((500) Days of Summer) are hosting a party for Batt and the book at Brooks Brothers in Beverly Hills, and we imagine some cast members of MM will turn up, as they are shooting now.

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Lois McMaster Bujold

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The Literature Page I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days. Lois McMaster Bujold Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards. Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999 Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999 Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity. Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain? Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation. Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991 Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive. Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance. Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991My home is not a place, it is people. Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991 Our children change us... whether they live or not. Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991 Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win. Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way. Lois McMaster Bujold, "Borders of Infinity", 1989The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives. Lois McMaster Bujold, "Brothers in Arms"His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it. Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old? Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose?though not always what I pleased. Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996If you can't do what you want, do what you can. Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be. Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart. Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996 You try to give away what you want yourself. Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996 I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is?the higher achievement. Lois McMaster Bujold, "Mirror Dance", 1994 It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture. Lois McMaster Bujold, "Mirror Dance", 1994An honor is not diminished for being shared. Lois McMaster Bujold, "Shards of Honor", 1986 Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it. Lois McMaster Bujold, "Shards of Honor", 1986 A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind. Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with. Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990 If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door. Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Warrior's Apprentice", 1986A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something. Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack. Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard. Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999

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David Letterman

Showing quotations 1 to 8 of 8 total Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television. David LettermanFall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious. David LettermanNew York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move. David LettermanSometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving. David LettermanThere's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting. David Letterman Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines. David LettermanUSA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population. David Letterman

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Eric Butterworth

Don't go through life, grow through life.
Eric Butterworth

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.
Eric Butterworth

Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.
Eric Butterworth

God can only do for you what He can do through you.
Eric Butterworth

I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.
Eric Butterworth

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
Eric Butterworth

One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
Eric Butterworth

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.
Eric Butterworth

Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.
Eric Butterworth

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.
Eric Butterworth

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.
Eric Butterworth

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
Eric Butterworth

While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite.
Eric Butterworth

Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.
Eric Butterworth

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Isaac Asimov

Showing quotations 1 to 13 of 13 total I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. Isaac Asimov I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. Isaac AsimovIf knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. Isaac Asimov It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. Isaac AsimovLife is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. Isaac Asimov Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. Isaac Asimov Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. Isaac Asimov Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all. Isaac AsimovThe most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...' Isaac Asimov You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist. Isaac Asimov One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm;
Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. Isaac Asimov, Laws of Robotics from I. Robot, 1950Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Isaac Asimov, Salvor Hardin in "Foundation"

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Kanye West, Maroon 5 to Perform at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show

CBS will broadcast the show -- featuring Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio and Miranda Kerr -- on Nov. 29.

Kanye West and Maroon 5 will perform on the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, CBS announced Tuesday. The network will air the show on Nov. 9 at 10 p.m. ET/PT.

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Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio, Miranda Kerr, Doutzen Kroes, Erin Heatherton, Candice Swanepoel, Lily Aldridge and Lindsay Ellingson are among the models who will walk the show. The broadcast will also include red carpet interviews, model profiles and the behind-the-scenes footage.

The fashion show is produced by done and dusted, inc.  Edward G. Razek, Monica Mitro, Ian Stewart and Hamish Hamilton are the executive producers. Hamilton is the director.

Maroon 5's Adam Levine currently judges NBC's The Voice.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God. Franklin D. RooseveltBe sincere; be brief; be seated. Franklin D. RooseveltHappiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. RooseveltI sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. Franklin D. Roosevelt If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time. Franklin D. RooseveltIt is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. Franklin D. RooseveltThe only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith. Franklin D. RooseveltThe test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. Franklin D. RooseveltWe cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. Franklin D. Roosevelt We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization. Franklin D. RooseveltYesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live on in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address to Congress, Dec. 8, 1941First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933It is fun to be in the same decade with you. Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a letter to Winston ChurchillThe only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Franklin D. Roosevelt, message for Jefferson Day, April 13, 1945Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939 When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. Franklin D. Roosevelt, quoted Kansas City Star, June 5, 1977A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, Oct. 26, 1939 Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26, 1939 The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech in Syracuse, NY Sep. 29, 1936 In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech, September 22, 1936

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. Ralph Waldo EmersonA hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. Ralph Waldo Emerson A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness. Ralph Waldo EmersonAll I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. Ralph Waldo EmersonAll our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. Ralph Waldo EmersonAs we grow old?the beauty steals inward. Ralph Waldo Emerson Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old. Ralph Waldo EmersonBeware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Ralph Waldo Emerson Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think. Ralph Waldo EmersonChildren are all foreigners. Ralph Waldo Emerson Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints. Ralph Waldo EmersonConversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live. Ralph Waldo EmersonDemocracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. Ralph Waldo EmersonDo not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo EmersonDon't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery hero becomes a bore at last. Ralph Waldo Emerson Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good. Ralph Waldo Emerson Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Ralph Waldo EmersonGive all to love; obey thy heart. Ralph Waldo EmersonGod enters by a private door into every individual. Ralph Waldo EmersonHe has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. Ralph Waldo EmersonI awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. Ralph Waldo EmersonI hate quotations. Tell me what you know. Ralph Waldo EmersonI pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. Ralph Waldo EmersonIf I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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A woman is always younger than a man at equal years.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

For tis not in mere death that men die most.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

He lives most life whoever breathes most air.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

He said true things, but called them by wrong names.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Light tomorrow with today!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

My sun sets to raise again.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Joseph Chilton Pearce

Showing quotations 1 to 2 of 2 total To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. Joseph Chilton Pearce We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself. Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Kim Kardashian Switches Between Wedding Special, 'Dancing With the Stars'

"What a night tonight!" the E! reality star tells her 10.3 million Twitter followers.

Kim Kardashian was torn Monday night about watching her brother Rob on Dancing With the Stars, and her own wedding special on E!.

"Dancing With The Stars the Kim's Fairytale wedding! What a night tonight!" she wrote her 10.3 million Twitter followers.

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What did she tune into?

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"Are u guys ready to watch Kim's Fairytale Wedding on E! Sorry Rob but we gotta switch over soon to E! #KimKWedding," she Tweeted.

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Kardashian then spent the next few hours live blogging the second night of her wedding special, which chronicled the Aug. 20 ceremony and reception to former New Jersey Nets forward Kris Humphries.

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"Im so lucky to have Lorraine Schwartz in my life! That diamond headpiece, the 66 carat drop earrings, the art deco bracelets! #Princess4aDay," she wrote, referring to her jeweler.

"I just DIE for @VeraWangGang! She made all of my dreams come true!!!" she added, referring to the designer who created her three wedding dresses.

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The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Kardashian was able to score most of her wedding vendors for free after promising publicity to her millions of Twitter followers and on her E! reality show.

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On Sunday, Kardashian's wedding became a trending topic after she live blogged with fans.

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Washington Irving

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A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
Washington Irving

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
Washington Irving

A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
Washington Irving

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
Washington Irving

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
Washington Irving

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
Washington Irving

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
Washington Irving

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Washington Irving

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
Washington Irving

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
Washington Irving

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
Washington Irving

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.
Washington Irving

I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
Washington Irving

I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!
Washington Irving

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
Washington Irving

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
Washington Irving

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Washington Irving

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Walter Winchell

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.
Walter Winchell

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
Walter Winchell

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Walter Winchell

An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.
Walter Winchell

Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.
Walter Winchell

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
Walter Winchell

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Walter Winchell

Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
Walter Winchell

I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
Walter Winchell

Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
Walter Winchell

Nothing recedes like success.
Walter Winchell

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Walter Winchell

She's been on more laps than a napkin.
Walter Winchell

The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.
Walter Winchell

The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
Walter Winchell

The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.
Walter Winchell

Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.
Walter Winchell

Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.
Walter Winchell

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
Walter Winchell

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Type: Journalist
Nationality: American
Born: April 7, 1897
Died: February 20, 1972

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Nancy Shevell, Kayne West, Hailee Steinfeld are Paris Spring Fashion Front Row Faces

Hailee Steinfeld attends Miu Miu's Ready to Wear Spring/Summer 2012 Show

Celebrities at fashion shows are (yawn) nothing new. Designers have been paying beaucoup bucks for celebs to sit pretty in the front rows of their runway presentations for decades. But it's always interesting to see who comes to support whom, be it their family, friends and/or business associates.

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For instance, Nancy Shevell and Paul McCartney hit his daughter Stella McCartney’s Paris Spring 2012 show last week. McCartney's show opened with several classic white dresses, clearly a portent of the wedding frock she designed that was worn by Shevell to her wedding on Oct 9. McCartney’s daughter also did the bridesmaids dresses and was in charge of the vegan food served at their wedding reception too.

And we would love to have been a fly on a front row chair to hear what Nicole Richie (who has a clothing line now) and her former stylist Rachel Zoe (who also has her own clothing line) had to say to each other.at the Louis Vuitton show (rumored to be Marc Jacob's dry run for the Dior head designer post). They've probably mended fences or at least try to look like they have.

Other celeb/designer alliances: Oscar-nominated True Grit star Hailee Steinfeld hit the Miu Miu Paris show because she's now the well-paid contracted face of the line and appears in their ads. Liv Tyler turned up at Givenchy's  show wearing a blouse with a praying mantis (or some kind of bizarre insect) print over an asymmetrical skirt. Why? Liv is the face of Givenchy’s fragrance Very Irresistible. And that hefty Givenchy paycheck must also be irresistible. Kanye West, whose clothing line Dw Paris debut got less than stellar reviews, came to Riccardo Tisci's Givenchy show because Tisci did the artwork for Jay-Z and Kanye's Watch the Line album. Oh, and Kanye also got to hang out with models Naomi Campbell and Chanel Iman.

Click on the Famous Folks at Fashion Shows gallery to see more celebs including Twiggy, Olivia Wilde, Kylie Minoque, Abbie Cornish, Uma Thurman, Clemence Poesy, a very shy (not) Jared Leto, and Salma Hayek, whose wedding vows to French fashion tycoon Francois Pinault must have included a promise to love, honor and wear his designers’ clothing.

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Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott Tweet Picture of New Baby Girl

Hattie Margaret McDermott was born on Monday morning.

Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott are celebrating the birth of their new baby girl, Hattie Margaret McDermott. The couple tweeted the happy news along with a photo of Hattie’s feet on Tuesday.

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“Our family's so happy 2 announce tht 10/10/11 R baby girl Hattie Margaret McDermott was born at 7:08am! Xoxo,” the couple writes on their joint Twitter account.

The happy father also tweeted on his personal account, “She’s gorgeous!!”

According to Life & Style, Hattie arrived a week earlier than the projected due date.

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Hattie, the couple's third child, joins brother Liam, 4, and sister Stella, 3.

That isn’t the only new news for the couple this week. Oxygen also announced Tuesday that the sixth season of Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood will premiere on Tuesday, November 29 at 10 p.m., which should document Spelling's pregnancy.

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Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell's Wedding: 5 Things to Know

From the bride's dress (designed by Stella McCartney) to the guests in attendance, find out more details of the Beatles' nuptials.

Paul McCartney married for the third time in London on Sunday.

The Beatle, 69, said "I Do" to Nancy Shevell, 51, a New Yorker who sits on the Metropolitan Transit Authority's board.

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Here are a few things you may not know about the couple’s wedding:

1. They were greeted by hundreds of fans and photographers ahead of their London ceremony, held at Old Marylebone Town Hall. There was a lot of speculation they would wed there after photographers snapped pictures of catering equipment being taken inside earlier.  About 30 guests attended, including Beatles' bandmate Ringo Starr and The Views' Barbara Walters, who reportedly set up the couple on their first date. She is Shevell's second cousin.

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2. McCartney's daughter, Stella McCartney, designed the newlyweds' outfits for the day. McCartney opted for a simple dark suit and silver-pewter tie, while Shevell donned a classic long-sleeved, cocktail-length white dress with a flower tucked into her hair.

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3. McCartney's daughter, Beatrice, (with his second wife, Heather Mills), served as flower girl for the ceremony.

4. McCartney and Shevell went public with their relationship in 2007, around the time his divorce from Mills ended. According to reports, McCartney and Mills' acrimonious split resulted with McCartney paying her $48.6 million. McCartney was wed to his first wife, Linda, for nearly 30 years, until she died of breast cancer in 1998.

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5. Shevell's first marriage was to attorney Bruce Blakeman, who put in an unsuccessful bid for New York's Republican Senate seat in 2010. They have a 19-year-old son, Arlen. "I wish Nancy and Paul well, and that’s it,” Blakeman  told the New York Observer. “Nancy’s a great mother, and Paul treats my son very nicely.”

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A friend is a gift you give yourself. Robert Louis StevensonIf your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong. Robert Louis Stevenson It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. Robert Louis StevensonIt is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire. Robert Louis StevensonKeep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. Robert Louis Stevenson Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. Robert Louis StevensonPolitics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. Robert Louis Stevenson The cruelest lies are often told in silence. Robert Louis Stevenson The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek. Robert Louis StevensonThere is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. Robert Louis Stevenson To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. Robert Louis Stevenson To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. Robert Louis Stevenson You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? Robert Louis StevensonBooks are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life. Robert Louis Stevenson, An Apology for Idlers, 1874 There is no duty we so much underrate as the as the duty of being happy. Robert Louis Stevenson, An Apology for Idlers, 1874 Every one lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it. Robert Louis Stevenson, Beggars, 1903 To hold the same views at forty as we did at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. Robert Louis Stevenson, Crabbed Age and Youth, 1874

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Mike Myers Welcomes Baby Boy

The "Austin Powers" star becomes a first-time dad with wife Kelly Tisdale.

Mike Myers is a new dad.

The Austin Powers star, 48, welcomed a baby boy named Spike with wife Kelly Tisdale two weeks ago, his rep told E! News on Thursday.

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"He is healthy and his parents are ecstatic," Myers' spokesperson said.

The couple began dating in 2006 and were married in a secret ceremony in the fall. They revealed they were expecting the baby in May.

Myers, whose credits also include Saturday Night Live and the Shrek movies, is expected to write, produce and star in a fourth installment of the Austin Powers series, sources told The Hollywood Reporter last month.

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Jack Osbourne Gets Engaged to Model Lisa Stelly

"im so happy for you & lisa!" writes his sister, E! Fashion Police host Kelly.

Reality star Jack Osbourne is engaged to model and aspiring actress Lisa Stelly.

Stelly announced the news on Twitter on Thursday.

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"The most amazing man I've ever met asked me to marry him ... and he wasn't joking! Crazy, right," she wrote.

Osbourne's sister, Kelly Osbourne, congratulated the couple on Twitter.

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"@MrJackO well i guess you're not my little brother anymore i'm so unbeliveably proud of the man you have become! im so happy for you & lisa!" wrote the co-host of E!'s fashion police Friday morning.

Jack and Kelly Osbourne rose to fame on their MTV reality show The Osbournes. Earlier this year, Jack produced a documentary about his famous rocker dad called God Bless Ozzy Osbourne.

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His mom, Sharon Osbourne, most recently co-anchored CBS' The Talk.

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A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
William Makepeace Thackeray

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
William Makepeace Thackeray

I would rather make my name than inherit it.
William Makepeace Thackeray

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
William Makepeace Thackeray

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
William Makepeace Thackeray

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
William Makepeace Thackeray

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
William Makepeace Thackeray

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
William Makepeace Thackeray

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Elisabetta Canalis: From Free $20,000 Couture Dresses to Buying $39 Garments Off the Rack

All the while she was George Clooney’s girlfriend, Italian TV host Elisabetta Canalis enjoyed certain privileges -- trickle-down fame, access and, of course, free clothes.

And not just any clothes. Because Clooney is a longtime friend and wearer of Giorgio Armani, wearing Armani tuxes to the Oscars and Armani suits on almost all of his red carpet appearances -- Canalis was also dressed by the House of Armani.

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When she accompanied Clooney to awards shows and movie premier, she wore Armani gowns, cocktail dresses, even Armani Prive gowns -- which are couture and would cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $20,000 and up.

Even the cocktail dresses start at three grand, and a ready-to-wear gown could hover around $6,000 or more.

Canalis was even flown to Armani fashion shows in Milan with Clooney and dressed in chic Armani suits (value: about three to four grand) that mirrored his.

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And if you think the good people at Armani were going to ask Canalis for the clothes back, you don’t know what the name "George Clooney" means to a big Italian brand like this.

This week, the recently booted Dancing With the Stars competitor was spotted in West Hollywood, shopping at the A/X Armani Exchange store in Sunset Plaza. For those who don’t know, A/X is Armani’s lowest-priced line, selling casual weekend clothes to a mostly younger customer.

Canalis picked up a faux leather mini dress for $98 and a graphic wrap cardigan for $39. In the past, she probably would toss items like that out of a giftbag on the way home. It pays to be an A-list girlfriend -- in more ways than one!

Now we wonder: Is Armani going to dress Clooney's new girlfriend Stacy Keibler in couture?

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Harrison Ford

Showing quotations 1 to 2 of 2 total Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist. Harrison Ford, as Indiana Jones We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. Harrison Ford, quoted by Garry Jenkins in 'Harrison Ford: Imperfect Hero'

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A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

A yawn is a silent shout.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Born: May 29, 1874
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