Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
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If I can't drive my old pickup to wherever I'm going, well, chances are good that I just won't go.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.
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You may not like the idea of putting money into a home when you're moving out. But it's demanded by the market. You need to show it off. You don't have to rip out the kitchen and bathroom. But maybe replace the tiles or the countertops. Get professional advice.
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I'd be happy to have regular face-to-face meetings at Downing Street with David Cameron to argue the case for alternative economic policies.
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To me, the kitchen is a place of adventure and entirely fun, not drudgery. I can't think of anything better to do with family and friends than to be together to create something.
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Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.
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I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
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The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.
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I'm getting to be a real pro at coming into things midstream and trying to catch up.
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Yogurt sauce, as you may have noticed by now, is a regular presence in my recipes - that's because it has the ability to round up so many flavours and textures like no other component does.
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And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.
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All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that's how I speak.
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That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
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I worked my way through the education system and was treated as though I had value.
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Modern morality is all about perception.
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When I think about the person who's been most in my ear, it's Joe Dumars.
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You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through a partisan prism.
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No yoga. I can barely sit down.
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The West sometimes doesn't understand Bollywood, but they can definitely understand how Bollywood influences people.
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The intellectual bourgeois of the old Empire - tepid and unimaginative, mentally slow, arrogant, and incorrectly trained - has proven his incapacity to be the bearer of German culture. His benumbed world is now toppled, its spirit is overthrown, and is in the midst of being recast into a new mold.
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One of the questions I get asked a lot is, 'What do you do to stay in shape?' My glib answer is, 'I play.' But I mean it. Sure, I go to the gym, but I don't spend my life there. Most of my activity is outdoors, whether it's basketball or mountain biking or rock climbing.
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It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education.
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The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
