Nellie McClung Quotes
The economic dependence of women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us, and has worked the greatest injury to the race.
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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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When you had thugs and bullies and killers imposing their will on their own people or other people - if you don't respond to it, it just keeps coming because they're encouraged by their own success.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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I think when you're doing good work, you don't necessarily need to be validated.
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I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.
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Ember Moon is extremely talented, and Daria, from Tough Enough, she's very unique and cool. The fans are going to get behind her. As for Asuka, she is phenomenal.
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We play tag and kickball almost every day. It's one of the ways that I've figured out how to spend some fun quality time with my kids while getting exercise.
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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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I think glamour is synonymous with me.
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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.
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When I retired from professional chess in 2005 to join the Russian pro-democracy movement against Putin, I was frequently asked how my chess experience might help me in politics. My answer was that it wouldn’t help much at all, because in chess we had fixed rules and uncertain results, while in Russian politics it was exactly the opposite.
Garry Kasparov -
The whole Christmas story was probably a later addition to the gospel narratives, presented only by the authors of Matthew and Luke. Mark and John seem never to have heard of the manger in Bethlehem, the Massacre of the Innocents, the hovering star, the three wise men, and so forth.
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Thanks to President Barack Obama, under the Affordable Care Act, millions more people will be eligible for health insurance, including many people with HIV.
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I finish two books a week, mostly nonfiction.
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The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns - I love them.
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I found a sound that people really liked - I found this basic concept and all I did was change the lyrics and the melody a little bit. My songs, if you listen to them, they're quite a lot alike, like Chuck Berry.
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Freedom of choice is meaningless without knowledge. That's why it's crucial we all get engaged and get informed.
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My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.
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Women are like wine: I can only afford the really cheap ones that have the big, ugly boxes that leak.
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The economic dependence of women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us, and has worked the greatest injury to the race.
