Jane Wiedlin Quotes
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The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
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I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
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I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
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I went 59.9 sec. when I was 18 and thought, 'Hmm, that was fast - let's see how much faster we can go and what the rest of the world can do to keep up.'
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Even the superstars need to be coached once in awhile.
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My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
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I started gigging when I was about 16, and I was way too young to be in the clubs.
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I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were written in a very self-consciously literary way. After I embraced gay subject matter, which was then new, I didn't want to stand in its way. I wanted to make the style as transparent as possible so I could get on with it and tell the story, which was inherently interesting.
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I really don't have a need to be on TV all that much, to be honest with you.
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Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.
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Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
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In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
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I remember turning 'The Sopranos' on once and within two minutes nearly throwing a brick through the screen.
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She had a yearning to lose herself in this noisy throng of people going about the business of staying alive.
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Mr. Mets is representative not only of the general public, but also of many scientific workers, publicists, and writers. Like most people, he takes words as much for granted as the air he breathes, gives them about as much thought.
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When someone is giving you his opinion, you should receive it with deep gratitude even though it is worthless. If you don't, he will not tell you the things that he has seen and heard about you again. It is best to both give and receive opinions in a friendly way.
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The river was dyed with the blood of the slaughtered for two hundred yards. The approximate loss was upward of five hundred killed, but few of the officers escaping. My loss was about twenty killed. It is hoped that these facts will demonstrate to the Northern people that Negro soldiers cannot cope with Southerners.
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The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.
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In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.
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There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.
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The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.
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Not for one single day Can I discern my way, But this I surely know- Who gives the day Will show the way, So I securely go.
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Even when he was just a reality-TV star, Trump was the kind of star who got a cover story in 'Time.' But that wasn't true. The 'Time' cover is a fake. There was no 1 March 2009 issue of 'Time' magazine. And there was no issue at all in 2009 that had Trump on the cover.
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The Go-Go's were like my first babies.
