Barbara DeGenevieve Quotes
I am attempting to move away from the exclusionary practices of feminist theory, particularly anti-pornography rhetoric, in order to amplify the discussion about the complexity of pleasure for women.
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In a typically contradictory move, globalisation, while promoting economic integration among elites, has exacerbated sectarianism everywhere else.
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
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He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
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Work is both my living and my pleasure.
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I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.
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I think every time, before we do an album, we have a discussion where we sort of consider the idea of doing something radically different.
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The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
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And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we're familiar with, they move a million times faster, just as a smaller tuning fork produces a higher pitch than a large one.
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
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I think I'd be a good dad; it would be a pleasure.
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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
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Writing-wise, I like to have a lot of things on the burners at once, because when I hit a wall, I like to move on to the thing I haven't hit a wall on.
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Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being able to do the science.
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If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes.
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The way through the challenge is to get still and ask yourself, 'What is the next right move? What is the next right move?' and then, from that space, make the next right move and the next right move.
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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.
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A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.
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...I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs in the world; but I do think that it is charged with the duty of preventing and redressing all wrongs which are wrongs to itself.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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The rise of ISIS in Iraq is a wider threat to the stability of the Middle East and the West than many realise.
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I am attempting to move away from the exclusionary practices of feminist theory, particularly anti-pornography rhetoric, in order to amplify the discussion about the complexity of pleasure for women.
