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 will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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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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Why did the chicken cross the road? To prove to the possum that it could be done.
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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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Never paint except with the three primary colors red, blue, and yellow and their derivatives.
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A governing ethos of the Internet has been that whatever flows through it - information, ideas - is up for grabs.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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The atmosphere at the different arenas has been pretty crazy. It's been a lot of fun coming to the rink every night and competing at this level and intensity. It's going to continue and get better.
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Shaw's relations with women have always been gallant, coy even. The number he has surrendered to physically have been few – perhaps not half a dozen in all – the first man to have cut a path through the theatre and left it strewn with virgins.
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But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life.
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To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.
