Janet Echelman Quotes
As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts.
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I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion about Saudi in general and Saudi women and Saudi women's opinion about themselves. I really hope they can step out of their comfort zone and just dream: try to push your limits.
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The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
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It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.
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Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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You can't not approve a merger because you don't like the companies' politics. That's just not right.
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Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.
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If you want to get to know a character, learn about their interests, goals or desires, their butt is probably not going to give you that information.
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One of the myths about Dad was that he was mean. That simply wasn't true. I always found him generous to a fault but he wasn't reckless with his money, which was rather rare in Hollywood. He'd grown up with nothing and he wasn't about to fritter it all away.
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As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts.
