Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE (Rebecca West) Quotes
Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.
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Gustafsson is a stud, man. He's a good fighter.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?
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I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'
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I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.
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Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
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What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.
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My kids are the most inspiring thing that pushes me. It used to be because they were born, and I had to take care of them. Now it's because my son raps, and he's better than me. So now I gotta keep up with him, you know what I'm saying?
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Growing up I studied classically and did lots of shows in school.
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'Boyz-n-the-Hood' was actually supposed to be written for Eazy's group. He had a group out in New York called Home Boys Only, called HBO. One of them looked like LL Cool J. Eazy wanted to write a song for them, a street song, like what we were doing on the mix tapes. So when I wrote it, it was too West Coast for them.
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The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.
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When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which I had left the team and that I had been away for four years.
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Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
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I'm from a very, very rural place. There's really nobody out there, just roads and farms.
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Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.
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All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
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Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.
