Marlene Dietrich Quotes
The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
Quotes to Explore
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
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Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination.
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I will do today what others won't so I can do tomorrow what others can't.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
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In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.
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Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.
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I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.
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Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.
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I don't do guilt. Whatever I do, I do it happily.
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But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
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Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.
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There's no question that largely vegetarian diets are as healthy as you can get. The evidence is so strong and overwhelming and produced over such a long period of time that it's no longer debatable.
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Strong moral arguments exist for why we should often try to ignore stereotypes or override them. But we shouldn't assume they represent some irrational quirk of the unconscious mind. In fact, they're largely the consequence of the mind's attempt to make a rational decision.
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There is nothing so strong as the force of love; there is no love so forcible as the love of an affectionate mother to her natural child.
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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
