Karen DeCrow Quotes

Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.

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• When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.

  

  Quincy Jones
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• You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
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• I had good skills, but my lack of size and speed kept me a little behind the best kids in the other sports. Golf offered a more level field. I would have rather played other sports, but golf picked me.

  

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• I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.

  

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• Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.

  

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• I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.

  

  Harold H. Greene
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• I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.

  

  Jack Germond
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• For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.

  

  Fei Fei Sun
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• Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.

  

  Naomi Klein
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• I've had two fights in my life. Both times I threw one punch, and both times I broke my hand! I really am a stranger to the world of fighting.

  

  Taron Egerton
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• A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
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• The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

  

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• By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

  

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• There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

  

  Jack Kemp
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• One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

  

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• The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.

  

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• There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.

  

  Olivia Culpo
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• Although only one man may be receiving the favors of a woman, all men in her presence are warmed. That's the great Generosity of women and the great generosity of the Creator who worked it out is that there are no unilateral agreements on sexuality.

  

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• No free country will ever again have anything like the 90 percent tax rates that we had in this country. Past a certain point, high marginal tax rates are, indeed, terribly destructive.

  

  Lawrence Summers
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• Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

  

  Pearl S. Buck
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• As an American writer, the literary tradition that I draw on the most is the Anglo-American one, and when you are writing in this tradition, the Orientalizing Western gaze is something you have to constantly push against as well as compromise with.

  

  Ken Liu
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• I really live a simple life and don't need very much to feel good and happy. Don't get me wrong; I believe you should get what you earn. Sometimes you have to fight for it.

  

  Kevin Eubanks
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• Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Women
  • Country
  • Together