Mary Beth Whitehead Quotes
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Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.
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All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it.
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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In 1941 I finished at Allison Intermediate School (grades 7-9), and started at North High School, commuting by bicycle about 5 miles from home to school.
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I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.
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There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
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Make health care a right, not a privilege.
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If you're doing the same job every day, there's room for error.
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I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.
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When I sit down and design, it's shoes that always appear.
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I'm not a nightclub person, but you need to have a social life sometimes.
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A lot of men do have a fear of my ultra-femininity. Sometimes people say I look like a drag queen, that I look scary, but I think that's a fear of my confidence. Most women in contemporary culture pare down their femininity, so there's a slight androgyny about them, and I think men have got used to seeing that.
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I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.
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I think Bloomberg's broad vision of the environment in New York City is something I agree with. I broadly stand with his vision for how to deal with climate change and prepare for future weather events.
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I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.
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Different artists are talking about the laws that exist and how they need to be fixed so that compensation does happen to a far fairer level. And I agree with that.
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It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
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He considers me just a uterus with legs.
