Florence Ellinwood Allen Quotes
It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
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I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.
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I was raised on NBC television.
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The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.
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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
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I think lots of men are like that. We sort of get dressed by our girlfriends.
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If I wrote a Jewish superhero, he'd have awesome time-traveling powers. I'd call him Doctorow.
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Every time you go on a set, it's a whole different world, and I love that.
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When I came out in the draft, people kept asking me, 'So are you a small forward or a power forward?' and I was like, 'I'm a basketball player.' Period.
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What I find problematic is the suggestion that when, say, Madonna adopts an African child, she is saving Africa. It's not that simple. You have to do more than go there and adopt a child or show us pictures of children with flies in their eyes. That simplifies Africa.
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It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
