Raymond Queneau Quotes
There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.
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I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.
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Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.
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In the struggle against sexual discrimination on Wall Street, Pamela K. Martens is a latter-day Rosa Parks - a woman who, metaphorically speaking, refused to sit in the back of the bus.
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I was kind of an unhappy kid. I always felt like a cynical New Yorker trapped in a little kid's body. I started to get some pretty bad anxiety disorders around puberty, which totally did not work with growing up a mile away from the beach. I started cutting my own hair.
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I was lucky that it hit my shaft, and then my helmet, and I was lucky enough to get that breakaway.
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...the role of determination is to limit the agonies of doubt and the perils of hesitation when the motives for action are inadequate.
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Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.
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It's a tremendous challenge now: to make sure the green economy is big enough that there is enough labor demand that people who've been thrown out of work can be re-employed AND people who are new to the workforce can be employed. And that is going to be very difficult.
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My daughter's got a smartphone in her hand with roughly the same power as a mainframe circa 1982, and she's running around Beijing and wants an answer as fast as she can.
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When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.
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There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.
