Blanche Wiesen Cook Quotes
I think Eleanor Roosevelt's so popular at Allenswood because it's the first time she is, number one, free. But it's the first time somebody really recognizes her own leadership abilities and her own scholarly abilities.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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After I do my first writing of the day, I will generally look at Twitter and Google News - and that's my big media secret. I look at Twitter and I look at Google because they pull all the headlines from other websites.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
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I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
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Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
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I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think, in essence, what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.
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My forays into trying to date girls my own age from the school I went to were all pretty tortured.
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It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.
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I've spent years trying to time up my drops with my throws. You learn to listen to your feet and trust your positions.
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Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.
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Modernization means Westernization.
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Listen, buds, it's March twenty first;Don't you know enough to burst?Come on, birds, unlock your throats!Come on, gardeners, shed your coats!
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These niggas ain't thugs, the real thugs is the government. Don't matter if you're Independent, Democrat or Republican
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As I continue to develop my relationship with Him, I have discovered that God is a nice guy.
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It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.
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When I die, I'd like' Friends' to be listed behind 'helping people.'
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Hopefully, at the end of all this, my music is going to be used as a tool to help people have meaningful conversations and meaningful relationships with themselves and with other people and with God.
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I don't believe there should be any restrictions when it comes to firearms. None.
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It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.
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I think Eleanor Roosevelt's so popular at Allenswood because it's the first time she is, number one, free. But it's the first time somebody really recognizes her own leadership abilities and her own scholarly abilities.
