Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
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My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can't live up to how chic they are as women. They are great role models for aging gracefully, and that's a thing that is very key that I try to always emulate.
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If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art.
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One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
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In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.
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I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.
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Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.
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It's really just my Hammurabi code of journalism ethics, that I don't want to ask someone to do something that I won't do myself.
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You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
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I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
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If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.
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My fear is that if we don't take remedial steps to control polio in the tribal areas, we will be faced with international sanctions.
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In terms of 'Solaris,' I didn't really think about the religious aspect an awful lot. There's one scene at a dinner party, and it's discussed, but it wasn't an overwhelming theme for me.
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You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.
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To put as little pressure on the relationship you're in is very important.
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We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.
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'Scalped' No. 1 was only the third comic script I'd ever written. I really learned a lot about writing on the fly with that series.
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At what point does a fly give up trying to escape through a closed window – do its survival instincts keep it going until it is physically capable of no more, or does it eventually learn after one crash too many that there is no way out? At what point do you decide that enough is enough?
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The bird that has taught its nestling to fly does not try to keep it in the nest, when it is once able to take care of itself.
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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem-in my opinion-to characterize our age.
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I have always needed other musicians to bounce off.
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I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!
