Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
It is a melancholy truth; yet such is the blessed effect of civilization! the most respectable women are the most oppressed; and, unless they have understandings far superiour to the common run of understandings, taking in both sexes, they must, from being treated like contemptible beings, become contemptible.
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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I don't like controversy.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
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We owe it to American taxpayers to make sure that contracts intended for small businesses go to small businesses.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.
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I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive.
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The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
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Every family in Konya has at least one shoemaker in their midst, and I am one of those families.
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For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.
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I do think women can have it all - but not all women. If you take daring steps and are smart about it, you can probably have it all. But you might have to wait a while.
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It is a melancholy truth; yet such is the blessed effect of civilization! the most respectable women are the most oppressed; and, unless they have understandings far superiour to the common run of understandings, taking in both sexes, they must, from being treated like contemptible beings, become contemptible.
