Shannon Lucid Quotes

It was just really, really tough getting anything when you were a female. Basically, I just took advantage of everything I could. But when people are going to flat out tell you they're not going to hire anyone that's female, there's not much you can do about it.

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• I think women have the right to consult their own wishes, needs, and capacities and produce only loved, wanted children they can care for - or even no children at all. I think we would all be better off as a society if we respected women's ability to make these decisions for themselves and concentrated on caring well for the born.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Women
  • Children
  • Society

• Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Two
  • Islam
  • Jews

• It's inspiring for me to know that you've got to step up your game.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • Game
  • Me

• Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Must
  • Either
  • Apartheid

• I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Development
  • Economic

• I was sent to boarding school - a grim place. The only good thing the headmaster did for us was every Sunday evening in the winter he would show us films in the chapel. He couldn't afford a sound projector, so we saw silent films, which you could then still rent from photographic shops.

  

  Kevin Brownlow
  • Good
  • School
  • Winter

• Music became my refuge and then my salvation.

  

  Lena Horne
  • Music
  • Salvation
  • Refuge

• Sound economic fundamentals coupled with a number of positive factors have partially offset the psychological impact of rising interest rates in Hong Kong.

  

  Li Ka-shing
  • Positive
  • Economic
  • Factors

• Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didnt exist.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • People
  • Black
  • Rap

• I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • True
  • Fashion
  • Style

• God blessed me with another opportunity. If that didn't work, I'd probably be in (the interview room) now, losing a lot of money.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Work
  • God
  • Money

• The future lies with those companies who see the poor as their customers.

  

  C. K. Prahalad
  • Future
  • Lies
  • Lying

• Albus Severus," Harry said quietly, so that nobody but Ginny could hear, and she was tactful enough to pretend to be waving to Rose, who was now on the train, "you were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • She
  • Rose
  • Slytherin

• Across a chasm of eighteen hundred years, Jesus Christ makes a demand which is beyond all others difficult to satisfy; He asks for that which a philosopher may often seek in vain at the hands of his friends, or a father of his children, or a bride of her spouse, or a man of his brother. He asks for the human heart; He will have it entirely to Himself. He demands it unconditionally; and forthwith His demand is granted. Wonderful!

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Friends
  • Jesus Christ
  • Philosopher

• I am convinced that the world-wide protests during the Rivonia trial saved Mandela and his fellow-accused from a death sentence. But in South Africa, a life sentence means imprisonment until death - or until the defeat of the government which holds these men prisoner.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• The big story is Bruce Jenner. In last week's interview, Jenner said he's a woman who is transitioning his body from male to female, and he's also a conservative Republican. Bruce said he looks forward to bashing Obamacare as soon as he finishes using it.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Female
  • Obamacare
  • Bruce Jenner

• Women were wearing the men's button-downs so I added men's touches into women's shirts. They're basically the same - just sexier. They're reshaped to the female body.

  

  Tommy Hilfiger
  • Body
  • Female
  • Shirts

• I came seriously close to getting married four times, and each time I backed off in fear or for one reason or another. Each occasion was different, but in hindsight when I look at the people involved, it wasn't a bad thing what I did. I think it may have been more complex had the marriage taken place.

  

  Ratan Tata
  • People
  • Different
  • Reason

• It was just really, really tough getting anything when you were a female. Basically, I just took advantage of everything I could. But when people are going to flat out tell you they're not going to hire anyone that's female, there's not much you can do about it.

  

  Shannon Lucid
  • Female
  • Can Do
  • Hire