Victoria Secunda Quotes
Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
-
I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.
-
The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
-
I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
-
I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.
-
You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
-
Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
-
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
-
My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
-
I sleep a lot on Sunday. It's really great.
-
Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
-
I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
-
When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
-
Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
-
When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
-
The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
-
Do I like foreign aid? Sometimes, but not every time. Don't like giving money to our enemies, but I love giving money to Israel.
-
It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
-
I don't want to do 'Beyond the Planet of the Apes.' I don't want a zombie society. I don't want to go that far.
-
I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.
-
I am absolutely confident that St. Louis can attract major players in technology and make the companies that are here blossom.
-
No, I have not a drop of what they call white blood in my veins. My father was a full blooded Negro, and my mother was a full blooded Chippewa.
-
'I was sort of an amoral little jerk when I was young. I was arrogant about being smarter than other people, but unhappy that I wasn't able to spend all my time doing what I wanted. I spent a year in a juvenile home for a first offense after an evaluation by a psychologist went very badly.'
-
Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
