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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If I'm dancing, or teaching, or having a family I would want to live life to the fullest as possible.
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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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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
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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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Gentlemen, as we study the universe we see everywhere the most tremendous manifestations of force. In our own experience we know of but one source of force, namely will. How then can we help regarding the forces we see in nature as due to the will of some omnipresent, omnipotent being? Gentlemen, there must be a GOD.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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Hope? Hope is not the absence of tragedy, my friend. It is the conviction that tragedy can be endured. Hope is the spark in you that is not subdued in the face of the vast and callous indifference of the universe. Hope is that which is not shattered by hardship. Hope is the urge to fight what is wrong even when you know it will destroy you. Hope is the decision to love and need someone knowing that they will one day die. For me to promise that there are no obstacles would be the cruelest lie I could possibly tell. That lie is not hope. Hope is the will which needs no lies.
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There is a certain amount you can learn from reading, but you also need to see and experience things.
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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.
