Mary Boykin Chesnut Quotes
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies would search them and they'd find you. It doesn't seem to work that way. There aren't enough jobs for experienced, college educated managers and professionals.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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Like a bottle of wine or a promising college quarterback turning pro, C.E.O.'s are similar to what economists call experience goods: you commit to a price long before you know if they're worth it.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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I shampoo every other day and only do the roots. I can't shampoo all the way down to the end, because it will dry my hair out. I use a mask multiple times a week to restore moisture.
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The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.
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I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.
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I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.
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Society puts so much pressure on girls to look a certain way.
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Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.
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The role of an actor is to make every character believable.
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I just keep thinking how lucky I am that I haven't had to sacrifice anything.
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Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrtum.
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'Sexy' is a state of mind, and it can come in all shapes and sizes. It is different for every person.
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You're people, in short, who must be stupid, insane, or evil to continue arguing - in the face of indisputable facts and irrefutable logic - that others must be forced into a state of helplessness and victimized by individual criminals or the state. Stupid, insane, or evil.
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I work with a lot of scientists, and one of the frustrating things they find is that all this fascinating stuff is being done which doesn't find its way into science fiction. They say look at the science fact pages - they're so much more imaginative than science fiction.
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That was Youth with its reckless exuberance when all things were possible pursued by Age where we are now, looking back at what we destroyed, what we tore away from that self who could do more, and its work that's become my enemy because that's what I can tell you about, that Youth who could do anything.
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I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.
