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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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 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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That was it, then, civilization was officially collapsed if the cops had stopped ticketing abandoned cars and roosted on them instead.
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Every time I work, it's an educational process because I learn by watching other actors. My career is always going to be an ongoing study.
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I realized that a dancer's life is very short and I had so much of a creative energy in me that I needed outlets to do other things so that's when I started acting more and it all kind of blended together. When you're on stage you're acting and you're dancing, it started blended together now.
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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.
