Carrie Chapman Catt Quotes
To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.
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I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.
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My identity comprises of more than just my faith. I am a proud Muslim, but I am also a liberal, a Briton, a Pakistani, a Londoner, a father, a product of the globalised world who speaks English, Arabic and Urdu.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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Hungary was the only Central European country that was not able to create a new constitution after the collapse of the communist regime.
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This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
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If I'm singing something I don't like, it literally feels like stepping on nails.
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Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.
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Small businesses all across this nation are tired of the uncertainty created by Washington.
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I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.
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I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.
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I am sure that in the story of Adam and Eve, the forbidden fruit was a fig and not an apple, pear or anything else.
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So many people would like to have guidance from God because obviously, if you have a word from God, it's the best possible thing. But they don't relate that to life as a whole. Often they want guidance as a way of opting out of the responsibility of making decisions.
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I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.
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Even allegedly gender-neutral words like 'sexist' imply slights only against women.
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Since the eighteenth century the immense expansion of the worlds wealth has come about as a result of a correspondingly immense expansion of credit, which in turn has demanded increasingly stupendous suspensions of disbelief.
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At 16, I would wear clothes that hid my body; now I've found clothes that fit me rather than cover me. I'm not skinny, but I'm healthy, and you have to embrace what you've been given.
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A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.
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You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous.
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I am going to work with Tom Daschle. And I'll work with the Republican leaders and the president to try and come up with something that we can all be proud of.
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Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.
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I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.
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To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.
