Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe) Quotes
I used the name Jane Roe because I didn't want my personal name to be involved in it.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
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I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding. But it's a good reason to put the price up, and it means a load of people will have haddock. They should tell people they're running out of all sorts. Make 'em panic a bit.
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Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion for the Australian tennis community to come together and celebrate our sport, recognise people's achievements and contributions to Australian tennis.
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A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
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There's more to life than physical and material.
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I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile,' I learned to adapt to color on my end.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.
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There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.
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Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
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When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.
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Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
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I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
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I know where I want to get to, and I know where I want to be still in my career.
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I do feel bad when my films don't do well, but I respect audiences' verdict because they know well which films to support. If they don't like a film, we should accept it.
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I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.
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Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement ... Manners, by which not only the freedom, but the very existence of the republics, are greatly affected, depend much upon the public institutions of religion and the good education of youth; in both these instances our fathers laid wise foundations, for which their posterity have had reason to bless their memory.
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I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But because I wasn't amazingly famous, I didn't become Stephanie Meyer, or even a huge literary name like a Jonathan Franzen or a Joshua Ferris.
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I love Costco.
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Pleasantly, between the pelting showers, the sunshine gushes down.
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I used the name Jane Roe because I didn't want my personal name to be involved in it.
