Booth Tarkington Quotes
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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I definitely had to do some soul searching, and there would be a lot of times where I would sit back and look at the Internet and say to myself, 'This is a way of being able to communicate with all my fans all over the world, other than just being in New York and only hearing the New York side of things.'
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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I feel like I'm five sometimes because I still enjoy myself. I enjoy what I do.
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One of my goals is that, at a dinner party some time in the future, someone will say, 'Oh, my nephew is starting a ready-to-wear brand', and 20 people will turn around and say, 'Is he? Can we invest?' in the same way that, now, if you were to say, 'My nephew is starting a mobile app,' everyone would say, 'Oh, smashing! Can I invest?'
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Many are called but few get up.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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I love love stories, no matter how dark.
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It's often out of my own insecurity. If I'm picky, it's for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I'm not connecting to something, then I'm not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that's really embarrassing.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
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I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.
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The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.
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The first science fiction show on television was 'Tales Of Tomorrow' using scripts from the radio show 'X-1' which used stories from 'Galaxy Magazine' as its source material.
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It's a simple fact: no individual can be good at everything. Everyone needs people around them who have complimentary sets of skills.
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If bigots oppose gay marriage so vehemently, it must be because marriage is a defining institution for them; gays will never be fully accepted until they can marry and adopt, like anyone else.
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I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality.
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I love to see technology from a design perspective and vice versa. I am a 'Desigineer.'
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So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
