Joseph de Maistre Quotes
It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.
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The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'
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You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic.
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As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.
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I was raised in a way where there was no distinction between kids and adults.
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A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it. But I have always wanted to think my own thoughts about a subject without being overly influenced by what others have thought before me.
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'Telling a story is how we digest what happens to us,' Mr Whittier says, 'It's how we digest our lives. Our experiences.'
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
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You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.
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The bonds that women share around the world, wherever we come from, they're very powerful and they have an ease of communication because we share those very important things of our families, our mothering, of improving opportunities for the next generation.
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How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to expose our wounds and weaknesses to our fellow creatures. It also requires the ability to be affected by the wounds of others... But even more important is the love that arises among us when we share, both ways, our woundedness.
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My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.
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Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.
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It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.
