Gail Collins Quotes
The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.
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I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
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However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.
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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.
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Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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What Spotify pays me is not even enough to pay the musicians playing with me or the people working on the discs. It's not working. Something is going to have to give.
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I have to do something with my mind, or I'll get in trouble.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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Fair Elphin, dry your cheeks! Such sorrow does not become you, Although you consider yourself cheated Excessive sorrow gains nothing, Nor will doubting God's miracles.
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I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.
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No human being in history was all good or all bad, or all black or all white.
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Scientific fashions last longer than women's fashions but not as long as men's.
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The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.
