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 mean, the last thing I want to do is be involved in politics.
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Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.
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History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am.
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I never think people are too careful with me.
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I was very eager to produce an oscillator for short waves. I was doing science with microwaves, and I would get down to a few millimetres in wavelength, but I wanted to get shorter wavelengths; I wanted to get into the infra-red because I saw there was a lot more to be done there.
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The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.
