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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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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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 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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Any team can have a bad century.
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Anything negative that comes at me throughout the week, you just take it and put it in that box over there for motivation and use it on Sunday.
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It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
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Part of our job as storytellers is to show people pockets of the world that they don't know. The more we understand, the more we don't judge.
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If South Korea's dictatorships were America's running dogs, then North Korea was the Eastern bloc's house cat: intractable, convinced of its superiority, and to some observers a more independent creature, but never much good at feeding itself-even after the can openers started falling silent in 1989.
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A bank in Washington was robbed by two men in George W. Bush masks. Luckily, right afterwards two guys in President Obama masks came and bailed the bank out, so everything is fine.
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I hate exercise when it's a regime, but I love a bit of dance, just moving the whole body.
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President George Herbert Walker Bush ran as a strong conservative, ran to continue the third term of Ronald Reagan, continue the Ronald Reagan revolution. Then he raised taxes and in '92 ran as an establishment moderate - same candidate, two very different campaigns.
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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.
