Carrie Chapman Catt Quotes
Roll up your sleeves, set your mind to making history, and wage such a fight for liberty that the whole world will respect our sex.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.
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I am married.
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All my writing, I always do it in the studio, 'cause everything sounds good. The piano's there, the keyboards; if you want to put strings on something... And everything sounds good when it's in the cans; it sounds killer.
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Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
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The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
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My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way.
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Bestow therefore thy youth so, that thou mayest have comfort to remember it when it hath forsaken thee, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.
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You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.
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A private ball this was called...but Lord! my dear Sir, I believe I saw half the world!
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The sham engineers of the music industry, who steer the wheels of public opinion, are driving the good features of calypso into the ground. I shudder to think what these greedy men will eventually do to this true art form.
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You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
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An education is meaningless unless it equips students to have a better life.
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For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
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This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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I've never met a person who does not want a safer world, better medical care and education for their children, and peace with their neighbours. I just don't meet those people. What I meet, over and over again, as I travel around, is that the essential human condition is optimistic - in every one of these places.
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When I first signed to RCA, I was sort of excited and shocked that it was happening. But over the next couple of years, it really started to feel like that game you play when you're a little kid - the one where you put your nose on a bat and then spin around and try to walk.
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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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Roll up your sleeves, set your mind to making history, and wage such a fight for liberty that the whole world will respect our sex.
