Caitlin Moran Quotes
Most women I know love the idea of fashion, but the practicalities that go with it are just distressing.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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I just want to do my job.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.
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The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.
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I understand the sacrifices American servicemen and women have made to protect freedom and democracy in my country and around the world.
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I think that is just a limitation of any questionnaire - that we apply a frame of reference or standard. It's a well-known finding in psychology that when people are total beginners at a skill, they tend to overrate their skill level. They don't know what they don't know. The more expert you are, the more critical you become.
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There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.
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I've always been interested in the Greek tragedies. A few years back, I re-read a translation of the 'The Oresteia,' and that stayed with me, and slowly this idea of using some of those old legends and plays to tell a new story about modern urban life began to form.
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Most women I know love the idea of fashion, but the practicalities that go with it are just distressing.
