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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
Hanna Rosin -
I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
Jack White The White Stripes -
If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
Samantha Fox -
I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
Ice Cube -
I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
Quentin Tarantino
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
Carl Safina -
The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
Samuel Morse -
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
O. Henry -
I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
Rachelle Lefevre -
One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
Gabrielle Roy -
I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
Carl Sandburg
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
Jack White The White Stripes -
I'm not the kind of person who's going to look at the top of a mountain and go, 'Oh, look at that! That's lovely. That's lovely, that top of that mountain.' I'm the kind of person who's going to go, 'Oh, my God! That's so lovely! Let's go climb up it!'
Kate Winslet -
The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
Florence Nightingale -
No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
I clean up really well. I can get dolled up.
Queen Latifah
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I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: '60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated.
Valentino Garavani -
I needed a break, and going to culinary school turned a lightbulb on that I didn't have to make music. The people in the music business forget that not only is there an entire world of people out there who do not care what we do, we are not creating the wheel.
Kelis Rogers -
I am just one human being.
Dalai Lama -
Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
Elizabeth Bowen -
It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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