Naomi Wolf Quotes
Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.
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The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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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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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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I've got friends who are literally working alone on indie games that have no prospect of profit or commercial success. I've got guys working on iPhone games.
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For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.
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I do think girls in their twenties accept certain kinds of lesser treatment than they would at other times in their lives.
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Also, now as a result of that show being on, the cruise industry is just growing all over the place. Princess Cruises, who I now represent, is the fastest growning cruise line in the world.
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Now I get a very nice salary as a member of Congress, but when I'm in Washington, I sleep in my office.
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Well, I don't let anyone record with me that is not a fan of mine or believe in my music. Everybody that records for me, from Bob Dylan on down to George Jones, everybody loves me and my music, and I knew they would do their best that they could do, and they did. I didn't doubt them a bit. There's some country people that I wouldn't want, which didn't record with me.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
