Joanna Russ Quotes
Remember, I don’t threaten. I don’t play. I always carry firearms. The truly violent are never without them.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
Tamae Watanabe
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
Baz Luhrmann
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
Igor Luksic
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To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.
Carles Puigdemont
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
e. e. cummings
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
Tali Lennox
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
Idris Elba
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I would love to work with Anthony Hopkins; I would love to work with Meryl Streep; I would love to work with DeNiro; I would love to work with Johnny Depp; I'd love to work with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow... I think she's amazing.
Tara Reid
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
Jack Bruce Cream
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It's very disincentivizing to have others take care of your needs.
Daniel A. D'Aniello
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My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.
Dana Perino
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
Patrick Wang
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I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.
Jackie Robinson
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
Valerie Bertinelli
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I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
Larry King
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Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.
G. Gordon Liddy
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Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.
Vince Cable
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My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles.
Arabella Weir
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Whether homemade granola or Matt's Munchies, I'm always snacking!
Hannah Bronfman
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Movement helps keep me centered. I am a disaster, for instance, at sitting meditation, but I'm pretty decent at walking meditation.
Pam Houston
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The only recording studio was in Motown - it was called Tamla/Motown at that time and we used to audition there because Smokey Robinson was at that studio and Berry Gordy was the president. I remember asking Smokey to listen to my group and he did. For the first couple of years we were just singing background. We used to back up Marvin Gaye; Mary Wells was there then, Marv Johnson, the Marvelettes, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Junior Walker and the All-Stars.
Diana Ross
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Remember, I don’t threaten. I don’t play. I always carry firearms. The truly violent are never without them.
Joanna Russ