Betty MacDonald Quotes
In the country, weather is as important as food and sometimes means the difference between life and death.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.
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And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.
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My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim.
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In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.
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To see for themselves what the United States has been willing to undertake in the name of freedom. We should all visit Normandy. We should pay homage to those brave Americans who stormed ashore at Omaha Beach and gave their lives for the freedom of others.
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As self-driving cars become more common, there will be a flood of new legal questions.
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Outlaw consciousness is born the moment I drop out, stop the world, cease being an actor identified with the mythic roles I have been playing in society. Change begins when I do nothing except observe. The wisdom of the railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen. Meditation is the healthy form of voyeurism.
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I'm never writing as a character.
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Don't worry about not fitting in. The things that make people think you're weird are what makes you you, and therefore your greatest strength.
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The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.
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You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told.
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I'm much more likely to get lynched over 'The Killing' than 'Macbeth.'
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I have written ever since I knew mechanically how to do it.
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What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.
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Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get from having a space program, is well worth the risk that an individual like myself has to take by flying in the vehicle.
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The template that 'Infinity War' is following is a very different, complex template because you've never seen so many characters in one film. It obviously has to be a multi-perspective film.
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Meditation hasn't separated me from my life and my friends and my work. It's just made my fear go away, so I can just be that much more engaged.
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If you’re going to have centralization, why not have it!
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I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is a truism when said, but anything but a truism when daily observed. Nothing shows up the difference between the thing said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
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In the country, weather is as important as food and sometimes means the difference between life and death.
