Edith Bowman Quotes
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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I would like to put forward a simple thesis that should no longer be at all controversial: it is now objectively the case that our national interests are increasingly affected not just by what happens between states, but also by how people are treated within states.
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Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
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A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.
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Depression has existed as long as mankind itself, and certainly well before psychiatry, antidepressant medication, or the nation of America itself came into being.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.'
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I think I can help others just by my example.
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By 1988, I was living in New York myself.
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What we have to fight for...is the freedom and independence of the fatherland, so that our people may be enabled to fulfill the mission assigned to it by the Creator.
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Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
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O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart."-Helena
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We fight like we're a married couple.
