Nancy Astor Quotes
Women are young at politics, but they are old at suffering; soon they will learn that through politics they can prevent some kinds of suffering.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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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 was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides ever, so she made it easy for me.
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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My original project was called 'The Wheel'; there's a record out there called 'Desire & The Dissolving Man,' 'The Memory Of Loss' as well. There's also 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run,' also 'Closer'; all of that's on our website.
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Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
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Casting my fate to the heavens, quite literally, I decided to go wireless. Completely wireless. All wireless, all the time, everywhere.
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People don't get my sense of humour.
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Whenever a man and a woman come to words or blows, fools are quick to attribute it to the differences between the sexes. The sexes differ much less than they wish to believe, and such differences as are real tend less to promote strife than to prevent it.
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.
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My personal take on politics is I deal with social situations and cultural situations in my music and in my life. I have said on record many times that I haven't voted. I'm not the type of person who says, 'I'm never going to vote.' I think it's clear to me that our system has failed us.
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My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science . . .
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Women are young at politics, but they are old at suffering; soon they will learn that through politics they can prevent some kinds of suffering.
