Alison Roberta Noble Neilans Quotes
The contempt which men feel for the prostitute, and the fact that they have always regarded themselves as far superior to her, even when they made use of her, suggests an attempt to rationalize the situation; it might be explained as an unconscious transference to the woman of the shame they feel for themselves in these relations.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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Call me crazy - I love elk meat!
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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
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Men need to live and breathe women.
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What we should celebrate more than diversity is what we do with it. How do we bring everyone in the tent and create something together? In a twenty-first century way that activates our true potential, we all need to become sworn-again.
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Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it.
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The more we can put the camera in a better place, the more we can take the audience on a more extreme journey with that character.
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For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.
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I think about death. I don't want to die with clothes in the cleaners.
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I know people could tell incredible stories. People have been in concentration camps, or women being raped, or a man going to war and not recovering from it. People have been robbed and beaten. A lot of people have had strong events in their life, which I didn't.
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I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.
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No artist tolerates reality.
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Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
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A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.
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It is hard to cement any relations with any country based on promises that may not be deliverable.
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I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness.
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I want people to see that true love changes everything. That risking your heart for the right person can give back even the things that you thought were gone forever. I didn’t think I’d ever be able to trust again. To love. But you showed me that I could own every part of myself—the good and the bad—without shame. Without fear.
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The contempt which men feel for the prostitute, and the fact that they have always regarded themselves as far superior to her, even when they made use of her, suggests an attempt to rationalize the situation; it might be explained as an unconscious transference to the woman of the shame they feel for themselves in these relations.
