Mae West Quotes
Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
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When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
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In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.
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I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.
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Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.
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We're a very iterative company, so we jump on basically all new technology.
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For me, it was really a childhood dream coming true. It's sort of where the fantasy led reality, and then I got to be on the Starship Enterprise anyway. And the cool thing was - is I was the only person on this bridge who had actually been in space.
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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
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Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.
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I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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Being on your own sometimes is appealing.
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.
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Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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He has not lived in vain who learns to be unruffled by loss, by gain, by, joy, by pain.
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I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
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I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family.
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Writing to you like this makes me feel that you are still alive. It’s an illusion I’ve noticed before—words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It lasts only while the words are in your head. After you put down the paper or the pen, the pistons fall lifeless again.
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Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
