Victoria Secunda Quotes
At the same time, the daughters, in adulthood, must also make the effort to really know their mothers—which many daughters do not—in order to understand what forces shaped those mothers. These daughters need to discover what torment may have unwittingly informed their mothers’ parental choices, and to see their mothers as composites of strengths and weaknesses, rather than as all good or all bad.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
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Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.
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Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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I am interested in all things that celebrate and enhance the female form.
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I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.
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I guess because there aren't many women working in the kind of variety of spaces that I've had the opportunity and privilege to kind of work in, that there is this extreme scrutiny about my career.
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Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.
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Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect.
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At the same time, the daughters, in adulthood, must also make the effort to really know their mothers—which many daughters do not—in order to understand what forces shaped those mothers. These daughters need to discover what torment may have unwittingly informed their mothers’ parental choices, and to see their mothers as composites of strengths and weaknesses, rather than as all good or all bad.
