Mary Calderone Quotes

We're still a sexophobic society, afraid of the wrong things for the wrong reasons.

Mary Calderone

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• They are very brave when they talk about other countries where they have no competencies, but where are they when we citizens need them? Is Europe's solution to Catalans to turn its back?

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Brave
  • Solution
  • Turn

• I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Sad
  • Right
  • Pay

• I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. But I will always say that I think we need more traditional country music coming down the pike.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Music
  • Country
  • Think

• Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • World
  • Today
  • Problem

• I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Think
  • Player
  • Confidence

• You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Money
  • Done
  • Man

• You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • War
  • You
  • Peace

• I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Character
  • Want

• I'm not a huge fan of my work.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Work
  • Fan
  • Huge

• People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Why
  • Think

• Governor Rauner talks about what he might get done or what he tried to get done. It's past time for all his talk. It's time for action. It's what I've been doing my whole life.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• That's the $64,000 question. And I would love to tell you there was an answer.

  

  Hal Sutton
  • Love
  • You
  • Question

• At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Red
  • Loving
  • Wings

• There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Politics
  • Mad

• I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move... We have seen the barbaric situation of the 21st century in Swat. So why should I be afraid now?

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Live

• I have the picture in my mind of how emotional I will feel if I win again.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Mind
  • Picture
  • Emotional

• My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • School
  • Mother
  • City

• Can you imagine feds saying we don't like your answers.

  

  Jacques Parizeau

• This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Job
  • Friends
  • Deep

• Whether or not they exist, we're slaves to the gods.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Scientists have argued that research is good for health, wealth, and society, and the government has trusted them on that.

  

  Mark Walport
  • Good
  • Society
  • Health

• So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books had prepared me for. Fate had to do with blind seers, oracles, choruses announcing death, not with panting next to the refrigerator, fumbling with condoms, waiting in a Honda parked round the corner and surreptitious encounters in a Lisbon hotel. Only the written word exists, everything one must do oneself is without form, subject to contingency without rhyme or reason. It takes too long. And if it ends badly the metre isn't right, and there's no way to cross things out.

  

  Cees Nooteboom
  • Long
  • Real
  • Book

• We're still a sexophobic society, afraid of the wrong things for the wrong reasons.

  

  Mary Calderone
  • Society
  • Reason
  • Wrong