Cecile Richards Quotes
I think we're all fighting for the day in which partisan politics is no longer something that is used to attack women's access to health care.
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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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Music is my release.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know?
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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I have no idea what's next. I simply don't have a clue.
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A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
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Since I was 15 years old I have dedicated my life to serving women.
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If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.
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I hardly ever watch the news... I love reading newspapers, but I know they're dying out.
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I'm a big fan of the poet Mary Jo Salter, and although she doesn't need to be discovered at all - she's widely admired and anthologized and extremely accomplished - I wish she were a household name.
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I've triumphed over addiction.
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I'm not limited by my gender, and I don't think anyone else should be either. Because I am the age I am and I sort of rode the crest of the first profound post-suffragette feminists, I wasn't fighting to burn my bra. Those women fought that fight just seconds before I came into womanhood.
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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
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I started in high school and regional theater. Anything that came into town, I wanted to be involved in, because I just wanted to learn.
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One was born a certain sort of person, and though by ceasless struggle one might become as nice as that sort of person ever is, one could never become as nice as a nicer sort of person.
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When I hear that young people have come to the theater for the first time to listen to opera, I'm very happy. Because it's the same thing that happened to me as a child. When I first heard the tenor voice, I immediately fell in love with this kind of music.
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I think we're all fighting for the day in which partisan politics is no longer something that is used to attack women's access to health care.
