Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe) Quotes
I used the name Jane Roe because I didn't want my personal name to be involved in it.
Quotes to Explore
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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've tried to work really hard on never phoning in the lyrics.
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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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Tom Hanks knows the name of all the episodes.
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In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.
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History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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I used the name Jane Roe because I didn't want my personal name to be involved in it.
