Jen Lancaster Quotes
Plaid is always cute and always will be. But only on the bottom. At the top, it makes you look like a farmer.
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I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'
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We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
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It's interesting having a son. Someone told me that it's good when you have a son first because when you have a daughter first and then a son, you think your son's slow. A lot of parents freak out because they've seen a daughter progress so quickly, and they think their male child is, like, damaged. But boys are just naturally slow.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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People come up and say, 'Hey, I know you!' They're middle-aged women and big burly guys. They say, 'Don't tell anyone, but I watch Felicity, and I think it's great.'
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As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
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I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.
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We as a nation have no choice but to conserve fuel to the best of our abilities or be prepared for harsh measures like steep price increase, if the need so arises.
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It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.
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I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
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I believe it is incredibly important for women and people of color to become the builders and creators in technology. In order to do so, we need to know how to code or, at least, know the language of coding - what I like to call 'code speak.'
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I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.
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If you bill something as a memoir, you're implying that everything in it is true.
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What I've learned from fighting is that the lights in side the cage will tell everything you did or did not do in your camp! Once the doors close there can be no lie or deception and the lights will tell all!
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And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.
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Plaid is always cute and always will be. But only on the bottom. At the top, it makes you look like a farmer.
