Phyllis Schlafly Quotes
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My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.
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You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
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A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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Topshop is the only brand I've ever collaborated with on a fashion collection.
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Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.
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I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.
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If a band or artist isn't tweeting or writing posts on Facebook every day, there can be this kind of mystique built about them, and I find myself retreating from the spotlight more and more.
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I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.
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I would be concerned if any speech to Congress related any information that's new to the president of the United States.
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People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
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Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.
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My life style in a sense is kind of private.
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That's what I care about most. That more people are making and more people feel like they are creative.
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I do believe that in a race, it is naive to think Linux has a hope of making a dent against Microsoft starting from way behind with a fraction of the resources and amateur labor. (I feel the same about Unix.)
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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I don't think the GOP is going to die; I think Trump is going to revive it.
