Sara Willis (Fanny Fern) Quotes
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.
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I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
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There's a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminated against because of your complexion, the way in which you could overcome that was through the way in which you presented yourself with your clothing.
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Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.
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Make yourself comfortable in everything you do.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.
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The presumption that an extant mode is efficient if the expected net gain is negative can nevertheless be rebutted by showing that the obstacles to implementing an otherwise superior feasible alternative are 'unfair.'
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Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.
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I got nominated for a Tony in my Broadway debut, which was fascinating and thrilling and sort of unbelievable all at the same time.
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Being on 'SNL' gives you a unique experience that almost no one else has. It's like Harvard for the comic actor.
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If 'socialism' is defined as 'ownership of the means of production'-and this is both the orthodox and the only rigorous definition-then the United States is the first truly Socialist country.
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Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.
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I believe now the industry has seen a different side of me. They have seen me in advertisements, they have seen me act, and now they have seen me as an all-rounder, complete with my dancing ability.
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[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'
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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
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How strong sometimes is weakness!
