Jackie Kennedy Quotes
What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
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You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.
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It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.
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The beauty of soaps is that it takes a village to make it work, and you get to work with really hardworking people.
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Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.
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It can be frustrating when you're put in a category with others. Women do get lumped together in this reductive grouping, and you think, 'Gosh, that rarely happens with the boys.' I'm sure people don't say to Eddie Redmayne, 'How do you feel about Andrew Garfield?'
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
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How do you deal with a criminal that will not listen to what you have to say and who continues his policy of violence? Some say you continue to talk and let him tire himself out. But nearly 40 years after the institution of apartheid, is there anyone who still believes that verbal persuasion will work?
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
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Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
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Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.
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My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.
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There is nothing deeper than to work for a year with the same artist.
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It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.
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I've managed to do movies and still keep a lifestyle where I can go to ballgames, go to a grocery store like everybody else.
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I want to be crystal clear that everyone has an equal stake in our society and in the future of our country. That is what I believe, and it is what I have always believed.
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The characters in 'Ray Donovan' are not very articulate - we're the worst Irish family you could ever live next to in L.A.
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What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
