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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Small businesses all across this nation are tired of the uncertainty created by Washington.
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
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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 have a harder time finding somebody. The problem is we were growing professionally during the years most people were concentrating on being a person.
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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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We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies.
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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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There is nothing to do but keep on.
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I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.
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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.
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Rules emerge as a spontaneous order–they are found–not deliberately designed by one calculating mind. Initially constructivist institutions undergo evolutionary change adapting beyond the circumstances that gave them birth. What emerges is a form of 'social mind' that solves complex organization problems without conscious cognition.
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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.
