Mary Elizabeth Lease Quotes
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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Interestingly, one thing I've found that neither women nor men give up on is the idea of men as protectors. Even in cases where the woman is earning more, they'll often tell me that if there were a fire or something, they would expect the man to be the one to protect them.
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You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.
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I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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Normally, I don't like explaining songs. I don't want to kill anyone's interpretation or the story they want to make for themselves.
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I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.
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Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us?
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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I don't believe in hostile moves. I don't believe they carry any value.
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Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.
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Riches, understanding, beauty, are fair gifts of God.
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Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.
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What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of -isms, and a matter of abolishing it all.
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Look to the beauty of this day, miracles are all around you.
