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.
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People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
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It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
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Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.
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I've got a transcendental way of thinking about things. I've got a galactic self.
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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.
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Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.
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Well, I've been a Republican for all of my voting life.
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All my life, everything has been a contest.
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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.
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I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.
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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.
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What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.
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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Cheating is cheating. Some coaches believe if you can get away with it, cheating is smart. I have no respect for those guys.
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Art is not concerned with the meditation about what is and how it came to be. That is a task for knowledge. Knowledge is born of the desire to know, Art derives from the necessity to communicate and to announce
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The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
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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.
