Judith Guest Quotes
Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.
Quotes to Explore
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
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Political correctness kills discussion.
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Don't let expertise fool you into seeing false boundaries or underestimating those with wild dreams.
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We will stand by the Paris climate deal.
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I never really ate that bad, I just ate too much. It wasn't like I had to switch to whole wheat bread or something like that. I really just had to eat less of what I was eating, and I had to exercise more.
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I have no control over the super PAC; all I do is write the check.
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If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.
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I love my country so much.
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Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.
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It was interesting to shoot history as it happens, without anyone demanding a huge story.
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I would always contend that talent is an element, but over the long run, ultimately, a minor part of it all; it is mostly hard work.
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All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.
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Before you rip off three feet of toilet paper, consider that each year 500,000 acres of virgin boreal forest in northern Alberta and Ontario are being clear-cut to make the stuff. These forests are home to some 500 First Nation communities, as well as caribou and bears, moose and wolves, and, in the summertime, billions of songbirds.
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Trust into leadership evaporates with communities when they see that their problems are not adequately addressed, neither at the national level nor at the international arena.
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I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.
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In the areas where FGM is going down, it has been addressed in a violence against women framework. It's a gender power control issue, and it is not something you can just educate people out of. It requires people to think that if they do it, there are ramifications. We cannot just rely on people's good will.
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Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.
