Janet Erskine Stuart Quotes
The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.
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All men would be tyrants if they could.
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Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture.
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My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.
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I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
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My voice has always been kind of distinct - even when I was four years old, my mom told me that people would be like, 'Why does your daughter always sound like a chain smoker?' I've always had this deep, raspy voice.
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If you go to a movie and it's a great experience, the experience at the end of it is always like this sadness that it's over, that your time with these characters is finished. There's almost like an achy feeling that I have when I go to a movie that I love and it ends.
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In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people.
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I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God.
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I'm a world class Beat Boxer; you should hear the noises I can make with my mouth.
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We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it.
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If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me.
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Be open and honest, but perceptive to your boss's situation. That's my advice to graduates worried about working with a new boss.
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I always go home to Buffalo in the offseason. I really enjoy my home town.
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Of the powers conferred upon the General Government by the Constitution of the United States much the most important are those given to the legislative body.
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What second love could she Olympias make out of her ruined first love? The second love that most women make out of their first love for husbands grows from a mutual and tacit sadness in both husband and wife that he is only in rare moments the man both would like him to be.
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The moment I appeared the crowd started jeering and booing and shouting ‘faggot’ and spitting, I had hired a bodyguard and when the jeering started I turned to see where the bodyguard was, I could just see the back of his head as he was running out of the stadium.
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To my wife, Yumi, my daughters and my entire family, please know that it is because of your incredible love and support that I am able to stand here today.
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Men’s life expectancy was one year less than women’s in 1920; today, it is seven years less, yet the federal government has only an Office of Research on Women’s Health.
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You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.
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Once I tried to use Him, now He uses me.
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Not too bad, but I went and had coffee afterwards and sat for a bit. I hate the dentist.
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I don't like talk and I don't like talkers. Like Ma Barker. That's what she always said, 'Ma Barker doesn't like talk and she doesn't like talkers.' She just sat there with her gun.
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You got to have two things to win. You got to have brains and you got to have balls. Now you've got too much of one and not enough of the other.
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The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.
