Gail Devers Quotes
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
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It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
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I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.
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In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.
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I'm not a fanatic about exercising. For me, it's about moderation and balance.
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Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!
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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
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If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.
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Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.
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In response to the drop in wealth suffered as a consequence of the 2008 financial crisis, homeowners and firms did attempt to increase savings in financial assets by reducing expenditure on durables.
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Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
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I want to spend as much time as I can with my family, yet I'm aware of having to bring home the bacon.
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The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way we've taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when it's too late.
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A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.
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You got to pick one - pay your medical bills or pay the mortgage. Most people can't do both, and I'm no different.
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We're not here to make the ignorant people happy. We're here to write our music for those people that are interested in good rock n' roll music.
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I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.
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It's not what other people believe you can do; it's what you believe you can do.
Gail Devers
