Mary Wesley Quotes
Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.
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One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.
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Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He loves to eat and drink and he'd be a great guest at any dinner party.
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I think if you have a good night's sleep, you can take on the world.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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I've always boxed, I always taught boxing.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
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When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.
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Generally, there are no lightning bolts or magical signs that tell you when it is time to get divorced. When the bad starts outweighing the good on a consistent basis, you may feel that taking the next step is appropriate. It is a very personal decision and most likely should be arrived upon with the help of some kind of counseling or support.
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It's like there's this boldness that I have where I'm driven by something that I can't name.
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I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.
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I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.
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We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.
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All the things I love is what my business is all about.
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I prefer flat shoes and comfort: I feel more like myself.
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Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.
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My favorite movie is 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.'
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Here we have the paradox, the potentially tragic paradox, that our relatedness to others is an essential aspect of our being, as is our separateness, but any particular person is not a necessary part of our being.
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Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.
