Carrie Chapman Catt Quotes
the system which admits the unworthy to the vote provided they are men, and shuts out the worthy provided they are women, is so unjust and illogical that its perpetuation is a sad reflection upon American thinking.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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The Tea Party has very close affinities with independent third-party movements like the George Wallace movement. The Tea Party is still inchoate, still trying to figure out what it's going to become.
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My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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Why should anyone be interested in my life? It's the prurience I find so extraordinary. Why, why, oh why should my private life be of any interest to the public? The only people who should be interested are my friends.
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I play golf - badly.
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I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.
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When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.'
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Freedom, like everything else, is relative.
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People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.
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Being in love, and I'm not an expert in this, I've lived it as much as anyone has, but I've not dissected it.
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I often talk to myself while walking down the street. I did it as a kid.
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If we were starting from scratch, there's no question a simple retail consumption tax with protections for those with lower incomes would drive the economy the best and be the simplest to administer.
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There are all these people in this country who are just not participating in the American Dream at all.
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You see a gorgeous woman on your screens in a flak jacket, and it's almost like entertainment.
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Every woman is sexy in her own way. It is up to men to step up and make women feel like they are No. 1 on that list. There is no such thing as perfection.
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Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.
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Why am I working so hard? Going for 400 books, perhaps, but who's really counting?
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I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words.
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the system which admits the unworthy to the vote provided they are men, and shuts out the worthy provided they are women, is so unjust and illogical that its perpetuation is a sad reflection upon American thinking.
