Amelia Bloomer Quotes
The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
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How do you make it to the top when all you have is ambition and talent? You believe in yourself and surround yourself with other idealistic and talented friends that fuel each other and push against the establishment to take you seriously.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.
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Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.
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The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were really there - all that fun stuff stayed in the show, and I think that's why everybody remembers it so fondly because that just doesn't happen anymore on television.
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God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.
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I've decided I am going to start loving my backside because I don't know anyone who does that.
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I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.
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I remained Ryan's companion on the Hollywood party circuit, growing inured to sex and drugs before I was in my teens.
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I remember making the all-star team in Little League when I was around 11 years old. I was not a great athlete, but I loved it, so making starting second base in the all-star was great for me. I think someone must have been sick and they slotted me in.
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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
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Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
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For my characters, it's important to get really specific about what they listen to. Because it affects how they move in the world.
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Hillary Clinton really wants to be president. She wanted to be president in '08. She's hardly left the spotlight.
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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys so it's pretty equal. I don't know why that is. It's been the same thing for a while. It's hard for female comedians to stand out. That's weird. That's a shame.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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The combination of lentils with rice or bulgur is the absolute height of Levantine comfort food. I could eat it every day.
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The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free.
