Zoe Akins (Zoe Byrd Akins) Quotes

It's all right to tell a wife the brutal truth, but you've got to go sort of easy with your lady-love.

Zoe Akins

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• It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.

  

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• You have to ask yourself if you want to be the kind of actress who's interesting, or the kind of actress who's meant to play the pretty-but-uninteresting wife of a chubby guy on a network sitcom.

  

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• We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.

  

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• I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there's truth to it - being a comedian is very close to being a therapist. When you're working smaller clubs, you're listening. You're feeling an energy, you're going with a tone but when people start yelling out, you almost start a conversation with people.

  

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• Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth.

  

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• I am like a friend to my kids. My wife, Sangeeta, handles their studies, etc.

  

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• I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a man.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
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• Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

  

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• I remember when I met my wife and that she could just grab my hand and I would just ease. I don't know how to say that but it was one of the coolest things. It was strange, but it definitely changed my life.

  

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• You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Yourself
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• I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as wife and mother at the suburban edge of Dublin - suggested I had the wherewithal to do so. But I did have a unit of measurement. It was the measure of my own life.

  

  Eavan Boland
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• I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge.

  

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• Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

  

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• I’m neutral on lying, seeing as how there’s times when the truth just hurts people.

  

  Orson Scott Card
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• The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails, he is put down as a scoundrel.

  

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• My parents always looked like they loved being together. That's what I took from them, and that's how my wife and I are. I still feel like we're dating.

  

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• I went to Poland for the Warsaw Film Festival, and it was quite an intense experience. I didn't think it would be, but it did feel quite emotional to go back to this place I'd heard so much about.

  

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• My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

  

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• You never really shake depression and that's a tough road you have to deal with.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
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• Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.

  

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• What Google did in Web 1.0 was take a feature, which was search, and built an entire business around that utility. In Web 2.0, Twitter took a feature, which is sharing, and built a utility that allowed people to do that on a massive scale.

  

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• It's all right to tell a wife the brutal truth, but you've got to go sort of easy with your lady-love.

  

  Zoe Akins
  • Truth
  • Wife
  • Easy