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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You ingest the automobile in the very air of Detroit. Or at least you did in the 1940s and 1950s.
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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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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
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We thought being offered the M.B.E. Member of the Order of the British Empire was as funny as everybody else thought it was. Why? What for? We didn't believe it. It was a part we didn't want. We all met and agreed it was daft.
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Happiness, it turns out, is a skill-one that you can train, just like you train your body in the gym. This is the next big public health revolution. Get on board.
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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.
