Norah Vincent Quotes
Women and men communicate differently, often on entirely different planes. But just as men have failed us, we have failed them. It has been one of our great collective female shortcomings to presume that whatever we do not perceive simply isn't there, or that whatever is not communicated in our language is not intelligible speech.
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The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.
Harrison Salisbury
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People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
Patrick Dempsey
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It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
Edmund White
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Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.
Danger Mouse
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I've got a transcendental way of thinking about things. I've got a galactic self.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
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One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
Napoleon Hill
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Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.
Dana Perino
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Well, I've been a Republican for all of my voting life.
Carly Fiorina
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All my life, everything has been a contest.
Bobby Riggs
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We tried to present an emotional scrapbook of what it felt like to be a band member on this 20-year journey.
Cameron Crowe
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I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.
Diana Ross
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Did I choose you? Did you choose me? And what difference does it make? All that really matters, friend, is that we chose together.
Lois Wyse
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What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.
Lev Vygotsky
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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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"Hope to the last!" said Newman, clapping him on the back. "Always hope; that's dear boy. Never leave off hoping; it don't answer. Do you mind me, Nick? it don't answer. Don't leave a stone unturned. It's always something, to know you've done the most you could. But, don't leave off hoping, or it's of no use doing anything. Hope, hope, to the last!"
Charles Dickens
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In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What is a black-and-white drawing but a convention to which the beholder has become so accustomed that with his mind's eye he sees a complete equivalent in the translation from nature?
Eugene Delacroix
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People had so much respect for George Mitchell. They wanted to cooperate with him. I think that's a hallmark of a very good leader.
Barbara Mikulski
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It has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain as fame or power not founded on its own strength.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Women and men communicate differently, often on entirely different planes. But just as men have failed us, we have failed them. It has been one of our great collective female shortcomings to presume that whatever we do not perceive simply isn't there, or that whatever is not communicated in our language is not intelligible speech.
Norah Vincent