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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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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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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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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It was an honour for me to have been able to work with Mr. Mandela in the process that led to the adoption of the interim constitution and our first democratic elections in April 1994.
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Our standards for motherhood are so high that many of us harbor intense, secret guilt for every harsh word we speak to our children, every negative thought that enters our minds.
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I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird.
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There comes a time to everyone when the world narrows for him to a strait alley, with Death at the end of it, and all his thoughts are fixed on that waiting enemy of mankind.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
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The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.
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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.
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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.
