Phyllis Theroux Quotes
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.
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I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
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The women of the Senate are like the U.S. Olympic team: we come in different sizes, but we sure are united in our determination to do the best for our country!
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The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.
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Over the years, we settled into American life and embraced it fully. But having come from a different culture, I didn't know the boundaries of American culture. Which is that, as a girl, you didn't play football or soccer at lunch with the boys, and to be cool, you didn't get into math Olympiad.
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.
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True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.
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Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.
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Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison, and then waiting around for the rat to die.
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…all heroes and heroines trying to approximate, through barriers of pigmentation, to the Hebraico-Caucasian norm of Hollywood
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Las certidumbres sólo se alcanzan con los pies.
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I think people like it when I tell them, 'I'm lucky to be here, because they are, too. Ain't nothing to do with age. There ain't nothing promised to you. Everybody's going to die.
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I feel very strongly that clothes that fit well make a person feel better. It's maybe half the value of the merchandise.
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My husband is leaving me. No dramas, no slammed doors - well, OK, a few slammed doors - and no suitcase in the hall, but there is another woman involved. Her name is Dementia.
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Prime Minister Maliki, released from American restraint, acted on his worst instincts, creating enormous distrust in Iraq's Kurdish population and deeply embittering Sunnis in western Iraq's Al Anbar, who lost any confidence in a Baghdad government they saw as adversarial.
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I seem to get motivated a few months at a time, and then something stressful breaks the routine, and I just fold.
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I would never presume to give anyone advice.
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There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.
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The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.
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And I used to buy 'Fangoria,' the horror magazine, which made my mum wonder if I was going to be a serial killer.
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Yet the Fascist State is unique, and an original creation. It is not reactionary, but revolutionary, in that it anticipates the solution of the universal political problems which elsewhere have to be settled in the political field by the rivalry of parties, the excessive power of the Parliamentary regime and the irresponsibility of political assemblies.
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To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.
