Charlotte Whitton Quotes
Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
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The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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I've always cared about fashion and what I look like. I don't like to spend a lot of money on designer clothes, but I do like to look good.
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I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
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The biggest challenge is always the governments - they try to stop all good things. I try to stay away from them as much as I can, as I know if someone can destroy something good, it's the government.
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Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room. For most, meals were informal, a kind of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down.
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A lot of people have the misconception that, as a Muslim woman, I am somehow against women wearing bikinis. No, I want women to feel comfortable and confident in whatever they wear.
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Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.
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I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.
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A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.
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In Europe you can be Sophia, you can be these older women who are considered very sexy.
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Men view life to be as precious as women do, and to say that men have a more violent nature is insulting to men.
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
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Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.
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The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.
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I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capacities.
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To be a good actor you have to feel life and observe life.
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The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'
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There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.
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I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried to work outside the studio, but it introduces too many variables that I can't control. I'm really quite narrow, you know.
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If there are no consequences now for breaking the prohibition on chemical weapons, it will be harder to muster an international consensus to ensure that Hezbollah and other terrorist groups are prevented from acquiring or using these weapons themselves.
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Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
