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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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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Fashion should be playful.
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For boys like me, in north Indian railway towns in the '70s and '80s, where nothing much happened apart from the arrival and departure of trains from big cities, the Soviet Union alone appeared to promise an escape from our limited, dusty world.
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At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
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If you think my career has been a failure because I have never won a national title, you have another thing coming.
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Let's be honest, the physical attracts me first. Then if you get to know the man's mind and soul and heart, that's icing on the cake.
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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.
