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There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.
Roberto Cavalli

Women, Sexy, Real

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
Lee Iacocca

Work, Him, Down

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
Andre Gide

Beauty, Today, Mind

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
James Russell Lowell

Time, Failure, Though

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.
Stephen Hawking

Life, Science, Media

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
Douglas MacArthur

Peace, War, Honor

I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.
Steve Martin

Laughter, Real, Laugh

A line is a dot that went for a walk.
Paul Klee

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant

Between, Genius, Insanity

I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies.
Roger Moore

Life, Good, Hope

I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.
Leo Szilard

Good, Someone, Two

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
Vaclav Havel

Power, Powerful, Small

This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.
Henry Rollins

Year, Lucky, Stage

Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
Paul McCartney

Down, Everyone, Pay

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.
Steven Spielberg

Education, Second, Pacific

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
Earl Nightingale

Time, Deep, Thinking

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.
James Allen

Energy, Easy, Fall

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
Earl Weaver

Greatest, Game, Baseball

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
George Sand

Life, Poetry, True

Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that.
Martha Plimpton

Character, Joke, Culture

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
Herman Hesse

Time, Good, Evil

That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny.
Jennifer Aniston

Funny, Hate, Making

Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect.
Shaquille O'Neal

God, Perfect, Nobody

There is a fine line between serendipity and stalking.
David Coleman

Between, Fine, Stalking

I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though.
Elton John

Free, Though, Choose

There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.
Jeb Bush

Positive, Between, Fine

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.
Oliver Stone

Thinking, Through, Thought

Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.
Chuck Jones

Sunshine, Human, Try

Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.
Lady Gaga

Sometimes, Between, Fine

If you're saying the same line 10 times and making it look like you just came up with it, that's acting.
Joan Rivers

Saying, Same, Acting

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