Mary Boykin Chesnut Quotes
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Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
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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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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'
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The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.
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We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.
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I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
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Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, really honestly, too afraid to try - which I think is pretty common for people who are trying to write a large piece of fiction.
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I'm very active, wild woman.
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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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I'm instinctively a Conservative.
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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
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The funny thing is, when I ask people with dark skin if they would change their color, they tell me no, and when I ask women if they would rather be men, they tell me no, and I get the same response when I ask people with unusual anatomies if they would take a magic pill to erase their unusual features.
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I am always on the women's side.
