Dorothy Allison Quotes
Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
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I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.
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Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
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I'm the first American designer who went all over the world.
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
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Every day, you get up, and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.
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How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.
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We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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I have a huge Lego collection - I have a really big Lego collection. We're talking pretty darn large. I also have a huge collection of original stainless steel Thomas the Tank Engine train toys. Beautiful little trains; they're my favorite thing in the world.
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May books spread the world over!
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When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, it's light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.
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I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
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There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
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Girls get competitive, as though there's only one spot in the world for everything _ but that's not true. We need to stick together and see there's more to life than pleasing men. It's important not to cut yourself off from female friendships. I think sometimes girls get scared of other girls, but you need each other.
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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
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I remember the first time I walked on that stage. Maxine and I were just a duet at the time, and we walked on that stage and did 'Looking Back to See.' Ernest Tubb introduced us at the time. I remember my knees were shaking.
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It's not that we didn't get along, it's just that my mother-in-law is very objective. She objected to everything I did.
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Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.
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Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.
