Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe) Quotes
I felt like they only cared about what I could do for them, not what they could do for me.
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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course has a very demanding layout that requires you to be accurate off the tee and avoid a number of well-placed water hazards on some of the holes.
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Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
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The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.
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My sister and I had resolved never to become teachers because the job seemed to demand so much. My mother always seemed to be working. Our dining room table was cluttered with papers waiting to be read and graded.
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I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.
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The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.
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I think I really benefited from going to college.
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Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
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You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.
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My best friend is my husband.
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The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a penny every dollar. Over a long period of time with lots of transactions, that piles up.
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I've enjoyed all the work I've done, and I feel quite lucky that I haven't been playing sweet girls all the time.
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Our experiences of the Solstice depends entirely upon where we are when it occurs. Neither Solstice encompasses everyone. Neither can. The Solstices stand forever opposed, literally at the two poles of our Earth and experiences.
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There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.
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I'm doing exactly what I always wanted to do, and I still like what I can do musically.
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She was a blonde nearly young American woman of such dynamism that the tideless waves struggled to get farther up the beach.
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the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions.
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What makes most of us who we are most of all is not our minds and not our bodies and not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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I come from a family of very strong women, women who have endured very tough lives in hopes of a better one for their children.
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I felt like they only cared about what I could do for them, not what they could do for me.
