Winifred Holtby Quotes
We are so little, so ignorant, so feeble an infant race crawling on a planet between immensities we haven't even begun to understand, that really we have no grounds for either congratulation or despair.
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I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
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Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.
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It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
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The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.
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In order to understand the mindset of a boxer, I needed to become a boxer myself.
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I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
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I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
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I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.
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I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.
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I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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I assume that we are all limited by our own brains and experiences and can only understand other people and other creatures through a kind of translation that brings them closer to us.
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You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
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What WE can do together Far exceeds what we can do alone.
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When the HIV/AIDS epidemic first appeared, a lot of the reaction was that it's not happening here. It doesn't exist. It's not on the continent of Africa. Then we moved into this other phase, in which it was kind of like, it's everywhere.
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I get nervous for everything - literally everything.
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During the Obama years, the Republicans have done an unprecedented amount of stonewalling on cabinet-and-below appointees. I would also argue that their war on judicial nominees has been way beyond what went before. Really, if the president nominated God to serve on the D.C. Court of Appeals, Mitch McConnell would threaten a filibuster.
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We are the New York Yankees
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We are so little, so ignorant, so feeble an infant race crawling on a planet between immensities we haven't even begun to understand, that really we have no grounds for either congratulation or despair.
