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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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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Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.
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I'm really interested in how we view the public figure, what makes a public figure, what makes a celebrity, and how images make politicians, so I take an interest in politics, but it's really an interest in the image.
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And, of course, the funniest food: 'kumquats'. I don't even bring them home anymore. I sit there laughing and they go to waste.
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I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.
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Conservative women in politics run a punishing gauntlet. They endure psychological evaluations and near-gynecological exams their male and liberal counterparts do not.
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I was exercising so hard that I began to lose weight.
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I don't think the GOP is going to die; I think Trump is going to revive it.
