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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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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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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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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I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.
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At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
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When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.
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Never should an unfamiliar word be passed over without elucidation, for, with a little conscientious research, we may each day add to our conquests in the realm of philology and become more and more ready for graceful independent expression.
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I have 'the first' attached to my name in a whole lot of different aspects when it comes to the sport of basketball.
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'I don't feel like I've re-invented myself, I feel like I've re-discovered who I was.'
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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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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.
