Kate Chopin Quotes
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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The Trump family's business model is part of a broader shift in corporate structure that has taken place within many brand-based multinationals, one with transformative impacts on culture and the job market, trends that I wrote about in my first book, 'No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies'.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.
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Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.
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I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.
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My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.
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The blessings of the priesthood transcend our ability to comprehend.
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You know, just because you're a blonde type doesn't mean you can't suddenly do serious parts.
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Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil.
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My priorities had been changing before I had Addie but after she was born they changed completely. I don't count - my daughter sort of owns me.
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I couldn't get a job to save my life. That's why I wrote 'Road to Paloma.' That got into Sundance and got into that scene, and that's how I got the role in 'The Red Road.'
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As she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself.
