Stephanie Coontz Quotes
There is one group of people - social conservatives, religious conservatives - who honestly feel that women's place is in the home and that wives should submit to their husbands.
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There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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Like every girl, we don't talk about our surgeries.
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Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.
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I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
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The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.
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I have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms.
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My 9-year-old daughter can recite every line from 'Easy Rider,' and that is not an easy song to do. She raps all of Nicki Minaj and everything; she's dope. She has my musical ear for sure. She sings, and she's beautiful. It's very powerful.
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It's nice to look good, but the most important thing is to be you.
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Fashion definitely has the power to change the world.
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A gun gives you the body, not the bird.
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When a story is told really well and is real, even if it's not about their own lives, people can apply it to themselves.
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A lot of people don't know, but New Jersey has, like, 700,000 acres of farmland.
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Don't think about anything for too long. Even if it's off-the-wall, go for it. You'll have a lot more fun in life.
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I have put gay dating on the map.
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No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
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I don't believe in lecturing people. It's much more effective to present reading as a fun, rewarding pastime.
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If you didn't know who I was, if I was to walk out on the street without people knowing who I am, you'd think I'm an accountant or a lawyer.
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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.
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In my neighborhood growing up, 8, 10,12 kids were the norm. Those stay-at-home moms would handle so much physically and emotionally. Even in my early teens, I could tell those ladies were something.
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Let's be perfectly honest. I love Rock to death. We're all different people, but Rock's a showman.
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There is one group of people - social conservatives, religious conservatives - who honestly feel that women's place is in the home and that wives should submit to their husbands.
