Danielle Dax Quotes
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If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.
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I get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies!
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I'm not a Democrat.
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I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.
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I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious.
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I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.
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The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you're experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true.
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Marriage equality - I think that it's a constitutionally guaranteed right. Let's end the drug wars. Let's balance the federal budget, and that means reforming the entitlements - Medicaid, Medicare.
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Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
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At the time when I was in college, Oscar Grant had just lost his life in Oakland, Calif. He was an unarmed young black male who had a record. And at the time when his death was making headlines, more people were talking about what he had done in his past than the fact that he unjustly lost his life.
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The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.
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Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys.
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People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.
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I don't really feel part of any particular movement.
