Betty Friedan Quotes
It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
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The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
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I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.
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My grandparents met each other in amateur theatre. My uncle is an actor.
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
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I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.
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Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet the white working class needs neither more finger-pointing nor more fiery sermons.
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It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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He looked like something that had gotten loose from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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There are nights when you can feel stale because you've fallen into a pattern by touring too much, but it's easy to get out of it by deliberately getting in trouble and playing yourself into a corner to then see if you can get out of it.
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The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and making up the public's mind.
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You may break your heart, but men will still go on as before.
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Overall, Korean pop serves as the foundation of my musical upbringing. As a result, the melodies that I create just exude that type of vibe.
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It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.
