Eudora Welty Quotes
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I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
Victoria Principal -
The incredible cinematography makes 'A Walk to Beautiful' almost like a poem; there is a tenderness on display that seems to emanate from the camera. There is also great sensitivity to the women whose stories are being told - never did I have a sense of the subjects being exploited.
Abraham Verghese -
Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
Lael Brainard -
Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money.
P. J. O'Rourke -
My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.
Q'orianka Kilcher -
Hard power makes sense under some circumstances. But there's not a universal solution to global problems.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person.
Edith Head -
Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
Ovid -
I've been engaged a couple times.
Tamron Hall -
I never understood the idea that I was a 'backpack rapper.' I think that's a lazy way that people started thinking. They like saying that because I got dreads. I look like I belong a certain place, so it's easy to put everything in a box.
Wale -
When I was teaching Latin in girls' schools before I became a writer, I didn't much like it if parents would come in and say, 'We'll have less of the Ovid and Virgil and more of the grammar, please.' After all, I was the one in charge. That's how I feel about doctors. You should trust them to do their job properly.
Maeve Binchy -
My style is scruffy with a touch of androgyny.
Sadie Frost
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Sometimes it's hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn't just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi.
Bear Grylls -
Appreciate your heart; really know how to take care of your heart.
Yuna -
People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.
Malcolm Gladwell -
If you can't be funny, be interesting.
Harold Ross -
Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
Lou Holtz -
England is my home. I could never leave. I'd miss my family and friends too much.
Mel B Spice Girls
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Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Adorn yourself with truth, try to speak truth in all things; and do not support a lie, no matter who asks you. If you speak the truth and someone gets mad at you, don't be upset, but take comfort in the words of the Lord: Blessed are those who are persecuted for the sake of truth, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven (Matt. 5:10).
Gennadius of Constantinople -
Retirement has never entered my mind for one moment because I don't feel the age I am - and I don't act it, and I don't speak like it. When God calls me, that's when I stop. Until then, I'm going to just keep going.
Engelbert Humperdinck -
Out of love you can speak with straight fury.
Eudora Welty