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 like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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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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How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.
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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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We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
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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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I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing.
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It is obvious, that theory alone, can never make a good artist; and it is equally obvious, that practice unaided by theory, can never correct errors, but must establish them.
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Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.
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Journalism is about results. It's about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way.
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Everything that happens later in life is appreciated in a different way. You can appreciate the thing for what it is, which you couldn't if you were 25 and had never experienced much else. You would take it all for granted and think that's what life is like.
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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.
