Edmund White Quotes
In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of the 'Feminine Mystique.'
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The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.
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For about 175,000 people, Chiranjeevi Blood Bank has supplied blood for free in times of emergency. This is because of the service-oriented attitude of Mega fans.
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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
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I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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There's always merit to having a debate.
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Personal style? I don't really believe in that. Whatever is comfortable.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.
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Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know that other people project their biases on me. But it is nothing like the experience of our African-American brothers and sisters, especially black and brown men and boys.
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On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
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You can do a hell of a film if you can understand what it is to be a man in America.
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Experience teaches us that when "everyone" comes to the same conclusion, that conclusion is just about always wrong.
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In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of the 'Feminine Mystique.'
