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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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a spy detective or a rock star.
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Much of our brainpower goes unused, and many people could benefit greatly from optimizing their mental assets.
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And Mr. Burnaby said acutely: 'Well, it doesn't seem to have done her much good, poor lass.' But after a while they stopped talking about her and discussed instead who was going to win the Grand National. For, as Mr. Ferguson was saying at that minute in Luxor, it is not the past that matters but the future.
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Women's minds have been mutilated and muted to such a state that 'Free Spirit' has been branded into them as a brand name for girdles and bras rather than as the name of our verb-ing, be-ing Selves.
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If I made a film today, it would certainly be on digital.
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To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.
