Rita Mae Brown Quotes
What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?
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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.
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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From the beginning of my time as Secretary-General, I have sought to advance a practical, action-oriented vision of the U.N. as the voice of the voiceless and the defender of the defenceless.
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When we have sealed the outer border and thus stopped the illegal migration, we can talk about any solution.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out.
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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I feel like a good mom. I'm a strong woman now... Don't look down on me. Pray for me because I'm trying.
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In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.
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I love comfort. Comfort is very key to me because I spend most of my time in very uncomfortable things, so it's all about trainers and flats.
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As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
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I remember that one time Carl Sagan was giving a talk, and he spelled out, in a kind of withering succession, these great theories of demotion that science has dealt us, all of the ways in which science is telling us we are not who we would like to believe we are. At the end of it, a young man came up to him and he said: "What do you give us in return? Now that you've taken everything from us? What meaning is left, if everything that I've been taught since I was a child turns out to be untrue?" Carl looked at him and said, Do something meaningful.
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The spirits, they intoxicate me. I watched them infiltrate my soul. They try to say it's too late for me. Once I was promised absolution, there's only one solution for my sins. And I blame this world, for making a good man evil. Now I ain't getting into heaven, if the devil has his way.
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Today couture has to be expensive, but it shouldn’t look expensive.
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What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?
