Ernestine Rose Quotes
Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
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Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
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Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.
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Without literature my life would be miserable.
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Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.
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I love 'Harry Potter.' I'm a huge nerd - I would dress up if I could.
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I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd never read one. I felt that life handed me a great subject, gay life, that had scarcely been examined, and I was impelled to record it in all its strange detail.
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If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
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My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.
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Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.
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My losses and my victories are in the past. I think of the future. After a fight is over, it's in the past. I always have to go back to the gym and train to improve in all areas, winning or losing. I think I can always do better next time.
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The United States are such a large place. And there are some states and some cities where the questions of gender or sexuality would not be asked, or where scholars or academics are working in small little corners of the universities trying to raise these questions and being told that either that they're strange or not appropriate or being actively opposed. There are other places where there is very active scholarship going on. Certainly on gender.
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I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'
