Cynthia Lord Quotes
Jason tilts his head toward me, his hand moving slyly across his book. Stupid. Speech. Woman.
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We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
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Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
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Foucault's genius is to go down to the little dramas, dress them in facts hardly anyone else has noticed, and turn these stage settings into clues to a hitherto un-thought series of confrontations out of which, he contends, the orderly structure of society is composed.
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I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
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Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.
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The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
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Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
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I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.
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Various channels of dialogue must be kept open to build trust. I will meet North Korea's leader if it is needed to develop relations between the two Koreas.
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Littlenecks and cherrystones are chewy and sweet on the half shell with mignonette, served raw. But a well-cooked clam is a toothsome, tender thing, full of that magical stuff known as clam liquor.
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I could live on challah bread, the Jewish kosher bread, quite happily.
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I have a Facebook page for me and my friends and a Twitter page.
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Why doesn't anyone remember that the Palestinians already had four real opportunities to establish their state, yet each time they preferred to revert to terrorism?
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When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.
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This is near enough true bliss.
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As a woman now, I want to share things. I have girlfriends in their twenties, and I say, "Ask me anything. You can learn from the things I did wrong, and you can learn from the things you think I'm doing right. Take whatever you want and make it your own."
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It's important to have the diversity of thought and approach that comes with being a woman.
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Jason tilts his head toward me, his hand moving slyly across his book. Stupid. Speech. Woman.
