Jacques Ellul Quotes
In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.
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I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.
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There's something about live players that you cannot get with machines: With live musicians, you can strike a groove, you can feed off each other... And, even though somebody might make a slight mistake, it's all real!
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The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.
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The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But even more galling for women is that few government ministers seem to even appreciate the value of the work they do.
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My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.
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I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
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At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.
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I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.
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It's successful, middle-class Arab men and women, professionals with seemingly happy family lives, who are prepared to go to paradise for a greater cause. That's terrifying.
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For me, doing a show is great, but I want women to be able to wear the clothes easily as well.
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We're not trying to make us live forever; we're not trying to even make us live significantly longer. What we're trying to do is extend the period of healthy life.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
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I've definitely, you know, been with women. And I've had great relationships with them where I was definitely in love. It's just I grew to a point where deep inside I knew that I could never truly have a relationship with a woman. I don't know if they ever suspected. It was never brought up.
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We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.
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Necessity has been a priceless spur which has helped men to perform miracles against incredible odds.
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Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.
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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
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I think people just don't respect women's bodies in general, the bodies of women of color in general.
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I started as a musician, then I was a singer. I sang with the band. Then I was an actor in the theater, TV, films. But I guess I am a song and dance man. It's at the heart of everything I do.
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If you don't try, nothing ever changes.
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Don't practise what you know - practise what you don't know.
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With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.
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In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.
