Thomas Cochrane Quotes
If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
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In fighting, you're not going 200 mph, but there's obviously danger in the sport. If you're a fighter or a NASCAR driver, you're obviously an adrenaline junkie. Both also take a lot of skill.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.
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As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.
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I've had my share of struggle. I believe, never take success to your head or failure to your heart.
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If you're a Republican woman, you're mostly on your own when it comes to support from traditional women's groups.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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During the summer months of my high-school years, I befriended Dr. Robert Kough, a physician who cared for members of my family. Although he was practicing general medicine in a rural community when I met him, he was well equipped to arouse in me an interest not only in the life of a physician but in the fundaments of human biology.
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People who don't fit the mold are treated differently than those who do.
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When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the quiet guy and making your mom happy.
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Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.
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Obviously, I don't want to minimize the patriarchal nature of our media, our government and our culture as a whole. But I think it's our refusal as women to own our power that is our biggest problem, both individually and collectively. The linchpin that holds the current system in place is the slumber of women.
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The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.
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Nobody within motorcycling has or deserves any respect.
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Oh, rather give me commentators plain,Who with no deep researches vex the brain;Who from the dark and doubtful love to run,And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun.
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If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.
