B. M. Bower (Bertha Muzzy Sinclair) Quotes
A fellow ought to make sure his canoe is going to stay right side up before he asks a girl to step into it.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.
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We have the ability to be able, if we have the right resources around us, to really do chop and change and have fun in our time and not just be stuck in one world or the other.
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I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
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I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.
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I've always watched the political shows.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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History's lesson, of course, is that attempts to suppress free expression have merely confirmed the caricaturists' original critique of heavy-handed and objectionable actions of overreaching governments.
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The selfie phenomenon is enormous, and it's hilarious. Especially as Australians, because we kind of hate people that love themselves, but that's all flipping on its head now, and we're happy to love ourselves.
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When I was 6, I held on to my mother's skirt, screaming that I wanted to be a dancer. She enrolled me in an academy in Madrid when I turned 8.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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It's such a male-dominated industry. You can be a feminist, it's just difficult because it sometimes comes back at you.
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Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
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A fellow ought to make sure his canoe is going to stay right side up before he asks a girl to step into it.
