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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I'm wearing a new perfume that I should recommend to the women in the audience; it's called 'Tester.
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One can hardly tell women that washing up saucepans is their divine mission, so they are told that bringing up children is their divine mission. But the way things are in the world, bringing up children has a great deal in common with washing up saucepans.
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Boxing is not always about standing in the middle going toe to toe. It's about poise and grace under extreme pressure.
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The rule of law means that law and justice are upheld by an independent judiciary. The judgments of the European Court of Justice have to be respected by all. To undermine them, or to undermine the independence of national courts, is to strip citizens of their fundamental rights. The rule of law is not optional in the European Union. It is a must.
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Every couple of years - no, that's every couple of weeks - I think I'm going to give up acting.
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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?
