Wednesday Martin (Wendy Martin) Quotes
I think the most relative thing is that women in a way that I think people haven't given us credit for, want to return to this idea about equality in marriages and financial autonomy. And if the richest women don't have financial autonomy, what does it mean for the rest of us? That's all.
Quotes to Explore
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
E. Joseph Cossman
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I am a just man.
Fidel Castro
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After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
Vikram Seth
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
Barry Diller
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I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.
Omari Hardwick
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
H. G. Wells
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
Iris Apfel
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It's the federal government's job to secure the border.
Carly Fiorina
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I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.
Kate Grenville
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Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.
Ram Dass
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
Felix Adler
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They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.
Laura Bush
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I want to have a normal high-school experience.
Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
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Even in a bad market, location, location, location is a way to still buy and sell property.
Vanilla Ice
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When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.
Barkhad Abdi
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The Tibetan people will need to determine who the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is.
Dalai Lama
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Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
Adam McKay
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There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.
Ian Somerhalder
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OATS - A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
Samuel Johnson
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It will never be Hollywood, the same way people think it should be. I think it will grow and it will be healthy and it will expand into more than one production house.
Ann Macbeth
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I never had a doubt about wanting to be an actress, but certainly when there were periods of unemployment, I would think, "Oh, I'm never going to work again." The only thing I don't like about it is the business part of it - the negotiating and all this stuff that you don't learn in school. I'm not good with business.
Jessica Walter
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I try to look at the evolution of these utopian claims. In the late '60s there was an assumption that the wealth generated by industry would be taxed and then put into social programs and it would provide a baseline of stability that would allow people to have the time for self-expression; and that social contract has eroded over the last four decades and now it's every person for themselves.
Astra Taylor
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I think the most relative thing is that women in a way that I think people haven't given us credit for, want to return to this idea about equality in marriages and financial autonomy. And if the richest women don't have financial autonomy, what does it mean for the rest of us? That's all.
Wednesday Martin