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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It's very difficult to consistently hit good iron shots if you get off to a bad start. That's why I'm always paying attention to my setup and takeaway.
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I started in business journalism from the outside, so when I started writing about markets and business, I was struck by the fact that markets seemed to work well even though people are often irrational, lack good information and are not perfect in the way they think about decisions.
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Society is still adapting to women being CEOs and professionals rather than homemakers. Because of this, the unfortunate outcome is that we feel we have to be successful at both - in the office and in the home. Striking that balance is different for everyone.
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I think loads of women have this idea that their life is going to start at some point, once they've busted all these problems of being a woman, once we're thin and we're pretty and we've got all of our clothes and stuff, that's when our life will begin. And you meet people at 48 who are still thinking that, and 58.
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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.
