Ellen Swallow Richards Quotes
You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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I'll tell ya, when you open up that can of dab, it's always fresh.
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'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
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I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.
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My dad's paternal grandparents were musically inclined. And I remember as a little kid going to visit them in their senior building, and they were, like, the stars of the building, especially hosting and performing in their senior talent show.
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With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
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The diverse sound of my music makes it a good fit for that demographic.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
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Strong Islamist trends make a fundamentalist Palestine more likely than a small state under a secular government.
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I've yet to use a cellphone, and I've never tweeted or entered Facebook. I try not to go online till my day's writing is finished, and I moved from Manhattan to rural Japan in part so I could more easily survive for long stretches entirely on foot, and every trip to the movies would be an event.
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The rich are becoming richer, and the gap between the rich and the poor is getting bigger.
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Women must know themselves better than anyone. If you have ugly legs, wear long dresses. If you have long, great legs, show them.
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You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.
