Polly Toynbee Quotes
Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust of women's bodies.
Quotes to Explore
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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
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On the Web, we can be whoever we wish to be, editing the face we show to others in ways that aren't possible in physical space. We can also fine-tune the complexity and depth of our interactions and relationships.
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
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In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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In skating or any amateur sport, as athletes we share something in common: the cost of training is quite a burden on our parents or on the athletes themselves trying to find a way to pay for their costs.
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I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole social life of the city, and to get divorced from what actually matters.
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Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.
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When I'm a bit sad, I often go for a drive in the country, quite fast with my music up.
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One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic.
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Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.
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Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.
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I'd rather try and cram in another two gags than leave a pause to say, 'Hey, wasn't that bit funny?'
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I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
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The great quality of the 'Three Kingdoms' is that it seems to encapsulate and portray every facet of the Chinese personality.
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You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a game where almost every shot is either an outside shot - a three-point shot - or a dunk.
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The Tao is like a well; used but never used up.
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We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your faces have always been more injurious to your belief than our objections have! If these glad tidings of your Bible were written on your faces, you would not need to insist so obstinately on the authority of that book ... As things are, however, all your apologies for Christianity have their roots in your lack of Christianity; with your defense plea you inscribe your own bill of indictment.
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Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust of women's bodies.
