Betty Grable Quotes
The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.
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I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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I definitely grew up as a small-town... I guess you could call it the 'small-town football player,' according to the stereotype. I wasn't involved in music at all.
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
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I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet.
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland.
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Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
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Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.
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I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I'm not a middle man.
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I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.
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Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile.
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So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.
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Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper - but in practice, too many break their pledge.
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The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.
