Jonathan Swift Quotes
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discrimination has undermined their right to a retirement with dignity.
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The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.
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We don't want to repeat the unintended consequences that surfaced following the NAFTA agreement.
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There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.
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Getting some distance allowed me to develop a hunger for India and to come back and explore it in a way I wouldn't have had I been living here. And that probably made me more political as well.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
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I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play their hits and that's it. That doesn't appeal to me.
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Nothing is unnatural - just untried.
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Digital has really made the fashion industry a lot more transparent. So people can see and understand how the industry really works, and participate in an industry that was very inaccessible to people. The only thing that people used to see before was the end product. Anyone can participate in it now.
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A big diamond necklace is nouveau riche, really. People who have wealth a long time don't wear such things.
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When I named it 'Girl Problems,' I knew I would be inviting some interesting questions and some funny questions, but that was the cool part about it - I wanted that.
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What some people invent the rest enlarge.
