Chiyo Uno Quotes

I don't wish to not be a woman, but I'd certainly like to be a woman whose sense of purpose comes from within.

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• I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Stop
  • Myself
  • Singing

• As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Life
  • Want
  • Journal

• Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Important
  • Game
  • Forever

• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Social

• I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Easily
  • Embarrass

• People would tell us, 'I love your company, but I want to go to Chicago or Boston or New York.'

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Love
  • Chicago

• I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Some people may have their doubts about me. But I feel like there's no shot too hard for me to take.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • May
  • Me

• In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Responsibility
  • Intelligence
  • Dictatorship

• I have never had to look up a definition of honor. I knew instinctively what it was. It is something I had the day I was born, and I never had to question where it came from or by what right it was mine. If I was stripped of my honor, I would choose death as certainly and unemotionally as I clean my shoes in the morning. Honor is the presence of God in man.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Up
  • God
  • Death

• Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes!

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • World
  • Death

• When I die? Fuck it, I wanna go to hell, 'cause I'm a piece of shit. It ain't hard to fuckin' tell.

  

  The Notorious B.I.G.
  • Die

• There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.

  

  Maureen O'Hara
  • Women
  • Business
  • Truth

• If I'm in a hurry, I will have the South Beach Ricotta Muffins. Some mornings, I'll just have turkey bacon and scrambled eggs.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Beach

• It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before.

  

  David Cassidy
  • Work
  • Done
  • Rest

• In money, and in life, you are very often your own worst enemy. You promise yourself you're going to diet, then eat not one or two French fries but a whole plate. You decide to really commit to saving for retirement, only to wind up with a new pair of shoes in your closet.

  

  Jean Chatzky
  • Life
  • Up
  • Money

• I believe, based on the activities, and I am not an expert on terrorism by any stretch, but I believe that when they attacked the United States and they attacked New York and Washington, D.C., they thought they could defeat us.

  

  Jim Walsh
  • Believe

• People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations.

  

  Bessie Head
  • People
  • World
  • Suffering

• Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Humanity

• I wish to be put away in a western dress I designed, with my daughter's little gold cross necklace and my son's small white testament in my hands, and my wedding band on.

  

  Patsy Cline
  • Small
  • Wish
  • Band

• I think that we are in a position to continue to make progress, but it's gonna require us to both recognize what the problems are, also recognize the progress we've made. Last point I'd make on this, since we're on criminal justice: During the course of my presidency crime has been the lowest it's been probably since the '60s.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Justice
  • Progress

• Homer tells us also that Sisyphus had put Death in chains. Pluto could not endure the sight of his deserted, silent empire. He dispatched the god of war, who liberated Death from the hands of her conqueror.

  

  Albert Camus
  • God
  • War
  • Death

• I don't wish to not be a woman, but I'd certainly like to be a woman whose sense of purpose comes from within.

  

  Chiyo Uno
  • Wish
  • Purpose
  • Justice