Wilhelm von Humboldt Quotes
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For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.
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If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.
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'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
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I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.
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Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.
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But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.
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I exercise five days a week at home.
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I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying.
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My mom was very much the product of a very paternalistic, deep-southern culture, but also a repressed feminist. Her way of being defiant was to raise us to be rebellious ourselves - basically, the opposite of who she had to be in her own life.
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All cultures have had a belief in ghosts and a fear of ghosts. People have always told stories, and everybody likes being frightened, especially when you feel safe. Personally, I find them scarier than vampires or zombies.
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I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.
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It's funny because as a composer, you want to hear your songs live on. I think a lot of times people will create a song and it becomes stagnant or something that they're no longer interested in playing, and they leave it alone.
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The clothes are different: pre-dog, I used to be very finicky and self-conscious about how I looked; now I schlep around in the worst clothing - big heavy boots, baggy old sweaters, a hooded down parka from L.L. Bean that makes me look like an astronaut.
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Our spiritual life cannot be measured by success as the world measures it, but only by what God pours through us- and we cannot measure that at all.
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My association with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is sort of predated by an effort that we were a part of here in New York City regarding the reaction to this 1954 Supreme Court [Brown v Board of Education] decision.
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The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
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Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation.
