Mary Boykin Chesnut Quotes
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
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This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
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In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.
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Whenever I cook, I think of Spanish music, so I always have to listen to some sort of salsa. It gets your body going.
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The fact that I have to set things to record seems idiotic. And channel guides - I get home, and I want to watch a Duke basketball game; why do I have to go hunting to find out what channel it's on? Why can't I just say, 'I want to watch Duke basketball.' Or, even better, why doesn't the system know that?
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I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was four years old. And what was always important was writing, writing, writing.
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I have no doubts that it will be a major sport-in the United States. I'm probably not going to live to see that day because Americans are a little afraid of getting interested in something at which they're not very good.
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We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.
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I work out every morning for an hour while in front of the news channel or business channels, then I'll ride for four, five hours a day. So I'm on the move all the time, and I think that's the key. A body in motion tends to stay in motion. That's the law of physics.
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Losing their reproductive rights is the first step to how women live in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.
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I believe Saudi Arabia is the only Muslim country in which churches are prohibited.
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I have a personal little routine that I do in my dressing room just to kind of get myself mentally prepared to go on stage, and part of that is a poem that I read to myself.
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I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be.
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'A man like that thinks that fear can win loyalty.''Plenty of masters with a lash who can testify it works.''Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.'
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I could never have signed this treaty. I hope that that is clear to all who have heard me.
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My family has reduced the effect of my career on my self-esteem. When I'm with them, they make me feel special regardless of how I play.
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If you don't have any haters, you're not that gifted.
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It only takes one extra something! To get you to where you trying to get to!
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Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience.
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The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.
