Mary Boykin Chesnut Quotes
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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Success can allow you to try for greatness, can give you an opportunity to take a chance on something. I'm very blessed to have the success that I've had, and that's given me so many opportunities to work on being great.
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I sent 'Hell or High Water' to Peter Berg, asking if he'd like to be involved.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?
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Google never knew how successful key words would be.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
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Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.
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I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.
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Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
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Indoors or out, no one relaxesIn March, that month of wind and taxes,The wind will presently disappear,The taxes last us all the year.
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I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change.
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As a young girl, if you do something funny - especially if you're Jewish - someone says, 'Oh, have you seen Gilda Radner?'
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There was great comraderie among players and coaches. We enjoyed the time we were together... road trips were fun. I don't know that there was one moment that stood out among all the good times we had.
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Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.
