Jessica Mitford Quotes
I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.
Quotes to Explore
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.
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I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.
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Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.
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If you don't meet the standards, then you don't qualify.
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I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
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I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.
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People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
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I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
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I've been learning how to soft-scramble eggs. And once you've had an amazing soft-scrambled egg, you cannot go back. It takes a little bit more work, but they're really great.
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Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?
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I see myself as a creative being. My only fear is compromising my integrity. I guess that's a constant struggle.
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I had this sister that was born who was given up for adoption, and I never knew it.
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I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.
