Samuel Beckett Quotes
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
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We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only because they don't want to seem too aggressive, too smart, unattractive, or too male.
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I've often said that there's no one thing that I do or have done that is particularly unique. There have been a lot of other authors who were in the military. There have been a few others who were pilots. There have certainly been a lot of other people who were in politics or served congressional staffs.
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that.
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I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections.
Garry Kasparov -
I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
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I like the Kardashians. I watch 'em. When Kim got the botox in her face, and it made her face go weepy, that was funny. I also watch 'America's Next Top Model.' I've always been a big fan.
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It had been my idea that a combination of purebred cattle and horses could be successful from an economic standpoint - in Maryland. Maryland is not a cattle state. To raise beef cattle successfully, you've got to be able to raise cheap feed.
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Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change?
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Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.
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It's time for male leaders to not only ask for binders of qualified women, but to re-write the definition of 'qualified.' The best man for the job, may in fact, be a woman, whose biography is not traditional, but is rich with experiences and skills that are not necessarily learned either in school or on the job.
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I don't consider myself to be a quote-unquote 'good girl'. I'm not prim and proper and polite. I'm very honest, and I love talking about sex, or people's deviances. I love psychology. I like listening to or talking about any personality traits that are unusual. That's what I like about acting.
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So nice to be a fashion icon in my day.
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A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door - he's the person who opens a door funny.
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Free-market economics and tolerance for Chinese violations of trade and commercial protocols did not result in either the liberalization or the democratization of China. Over the past two decades, we have been told that the Japanese, the European Union, and the Chinese successively would eclipse America with their respective superior paradigms.
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I'm a happy person, and I want everybody else to be happy. Nothing wrong with that.
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Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.
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We have very specific rules about how we go to market with children, and I think they are very responsible.
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When I was a kid, if I liked something from merchandising, I'd have to go to the toy store.
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God knows I wanted love... but the moment I had to choose between the man I loved and my dresses... I chose the dresses.
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It means what it says.
