I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.


Amy Vanderbilt

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- All get finded in the hard way.
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What you do, say, and have reveal who you are.
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I Don't Like What I Do, I Love What I Do!
JOHN PETERS
... I am you... what am I going to do?"

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DEYTH BANGER
Now they have a riddle.

- Criminal Minds
DEYTH BANGER
The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
JIM HARRISON
You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE
Just do what you love. This is what I am doing.
ANGELIQUE KERBER
If I have to play an obnoxious character, try to find a redeeming feature of him. The most obnoxious...
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We do a lot of market research. We try to find out what people like, what they want to watch.
LI HAO
Don't like me for what I am.
Just like me for who I am.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.
~WALT DISNEY
I'm not a facelift person. I am what I am.
ROBERT REDFORD
I am what I am. A fighter.
GORDON RAMSAY
A good interviewer is able to ferret out what the applicant is really passionate about. Ask them wha...
NOLAN BUSHNELL
Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO
Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD
I am what I am, but I'm not a thief. And I'm not scandalous.
JERRY HELLER
When you are not sure what to do, take action. You will quickly find out.
JEFFREY FRY
what matter most ? _ you . only you.everyday every event would pass by through your vein
LITYMUNSHI
They know what they want, but aren't sure how to find it.
JAMES C. DOBSON
You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
JEFFREY FRY
Don’t waste your time trying to impress others to satisfy their ego. do what you love & love what ...
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When I know what to do, everything is so easy.
LORRIN L. LEE
I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
DANA PLATO
I don't think of myself as pretty. I am what I am.
ISABELI FONTANA
If you're confused about what to do,
it's a sign that your enemy is winning.
TOBA BETA
They know what I can do and they know what I am capable of. I really don't have any choice of what t...
BILLY VOLEK
I am a hard-news journalist. That is what I do.
CANDY CROWLEY
Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.
JUDY COLLINS
How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C.
You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.
ROALD DAHL
My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfied us both. They are to say what they please,...
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What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the ...
BILLY CORGAN
That's the good thing about it. Nothing counts except what's goin' on around you.
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They're not thinking of how it's going to please a mass audience, ... They're really writing it for ...
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I am what I am. I have not deliberately built an image for myself.
RAHUL DRAVID
and take the ironmen in the rear while they are beating off what they think is my main thrust up the...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
For every fatal shooting, there are about 3 non-fatal shootings. Folks, this is unacceptable in Amer...
GEORGE W. BUSH
Almost universally, when people look back on their lives while on their deathbed [...] they wish the...
RICHARD CARLSON
What you read, and what you have watched and what you have listened is just the few from all... You ...
DEYTH BANGER
Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they'...
HELEN THOMAS
Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they ...
PROVERB
The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going t...
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What happened here (in Minnesota), it's fine. They moved on, they made decisions that benefited the ...
CHRIS HOVAN
God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the...
JOY BALUCH
People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the Great Unseen...
NEALE DONALD WALSCH
You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What h...
JIM ROHN
It's nice to have a lot of people in the field. Independent, third party, Libertarian, Reform and ot...
JOHN MURRAY
Do what you love doing.
JULIANNA MARGULIES
It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.
LESLIE WHAT
To be real is to be who you are according to the purpose which God wants you to accomplish but not t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Being able to do what you wish is the best thing in the world!
SHIRO AMANO
We both know... that soon everything is going to end...

...
This chat will be in the...
DEYTH BANGER
What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they nev...
C.S. LEWIS
I mean you ACRES of harm,' Dalrymple growled. 'Untold QUANTITIES of harm. I will visit a whole CONTI...
DEREK LANDY
I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid.
PAMELA ANDERSON
My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.
MICHAEL STIPE
I don't have two different personalities. I am what I am.
JUDY SHEINDLIN
I am what I am and, you know, I'm a very lucky guy.
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG
I'm not going to change; I'm very stubborn in this way. I am what I am.
ANNE WOJCICKI
What I want???
I just want silence I can afford it, it doesn't need to pay for it or does it?
DEYTH BANGER
Who cares what THEY think, what do YOU think? You can't control others' perception of you, so just b...
DAN O'DONNELL
I have to give them a lot of credit that they deserve. They came out and executed, and that's what t...
ADAM BEACH
What we are doing is satisfying the American public. That's our job. I always say we have to give mo...
WILLIAM PALEY
They know what they have to do. I have faith in them to go out and win our conference.
MACKEY SASSER
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand,...
DENNIS WAITLEY
People tell me they have no idea what I am going through, but then feel they have a right to judge h...
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE
In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble o...
MARGE PIERCY
My dear, treacherous mother,” he breathed. “What have you done?
GRACE DRAVEN
People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the...
YUVRAJ SINGH
To do what you love can sometimes be stressful.
TONI BRAXTON
I'm not afraid to go a long ways out of the box if I have to. I challenge people to find a way to im...
DEB HAUSER
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand,...
DENIS WAITLEY
I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY
When someone is punched in the face, you find out what they are made of.
JACQUES AUDIARD
Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told....
SETH GODIN
What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
When they evacuated, what most people took out was what they could put in a car. ... I don't think a...
LEE WATKINS
Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time crit...
GERMANY KENT
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ABHIJIT NASKAR
The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS
I do not have what I own, nor do I have what I do. I only have what I am.
TRINIDAD HUNT
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JUDITH MARTIN
I am protected, shaped and built by what is outside, what they made of me, but also by what is insid...
ALLY CONDIE
I think there are a lot of chefs in D.C. who have made D.C. what it is today. I am very respectful t...
DANIEL BOULUD
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.
I think to try to understand human behavior and why people do what they do, and what in their lives ...
HALEY BENNETT
It is not what we have that matters; what matters is what we give away with love.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am. What you see is what you get.
DANA PLATO
What scares me most is the pessimism of people.
DANIEL MELGAçO
If you go out to dinner with someone, you find out what they prefer in food. We ought to be able to ...
BETTY DODSON
What we have left behind is beautiful, captivating, and inviting. What lies ahead of us is magnifice...
DEBASISH MRIDHA
In the morning, people have a plan for that day. Hardworking people think of what they will do durin...
ERALDO BANOVAC
Most people overestimate what they can do in a month and underestimate what they can do in an hour.
ANONYMOUS
Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI
You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues.
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Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
AMY LOWELL
With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.
AMY TAN
Moon! Moon! am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.
AMY LOWELL
Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pre...
AMY CARMICHAEL
A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
AMY LOWELL
Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
AMY LOWELL
Soft-heartedness, in times like these, Shows sof'ness in the upper story!
AMY LOWELL
Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
AMY LOWELL
No animal is so inexhaustable as an excited infant.
AMY LESLIE
Your true life is the one that would be the greatest gift you could give to others.
AMY MCTEAR
Frugality without creativity is deprivation.
AMY DACYCZYN
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the wor...
AMY LOWELL
Memory feeds imagination.
AMY TAN
You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!
AMY TAN
Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it ...
AMY LEE
I don't think it should be a surprise when we're talking about energy and trying to have mor...
AMY KLOBUCHAR
I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance a...
AMY KLOBUCHAR
There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have...
AMY LEE
Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's n...
AMY LEE
When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8...
AMY ROBACH
I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried pr...
AMY WALDMAN
I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had w...
AMY CHUA
Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me th...
AMY WALDMAN
I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at al...
AMY POEHLER
I was on my death bed, and I remember hanging on to these words, 'Don't be scared. You are g...
AMY PURDY
When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. ...
AMY POEHLER
The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins a...
AMY LEE
In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In Amer...
AMY CHUA
At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing a...
AMY TAN
Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, tra...
AMY CHUA
I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, st...
AMY POEHLER
I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.
AMY WINEHOUSE
Pfizer's actually teamed up with my nonprofit organization, which is called Adaptive Action Spor...
AMY PURDY
After I lost my legs, all I wanted to do was snowboard again. I remember spending an entire year on ...
AMY PURDY
Tina Fey and I have 15 things in development: 'Laverne and Shirley', 'Starsky and Hutch ...
AMY POEHLER
Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't tr...
AMY POEHLER
When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accuse...
AMY ADAMS
I've always hated the way Hollywood has portrayed accountants. They're always little nerd ba...
AMY HECKERLING
I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don...
AMY GRANT
When I go on holiday, I wear wedges. They accentuate your leg, honey, and you have to look good on t...
AMY CHILDS
Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This lo...
AMY TAN
We can stop the cycle of animal homelessness and save lives by opening our hearts and homes to a lov...
AMY JACKSON