Christina Hoff Sommers Quotes
Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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Golf was never a religion to me.
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I do admit to being slightly in love with Christopher Walken.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.
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My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.
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Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.
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What you see is what you get.
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The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
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When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.
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I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move... We have seen the barbaric situation of the 21st century in Swat. So why should I be afraid now?
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.
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Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.
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We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it.
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Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.
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I think a lot of the reason people are attracted to the Keystone pipeline is because at least we're doing something. There's a fear that society will collapse if it's not acting. To contrast those actions with other actions is important in making it feel plausible. Maybe we must have the size of the dream meet the size of the threat.
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Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.
