Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill Quotes
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I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.
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We're going to do something that's really unprecedented in the industry by launching the console in all three major markets for the same holiday. It's never been done before.
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I have one idea of how to get more Democratic women to polling stations: Stand up for them.
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Being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It's two steps removed from the Inquisition.
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If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.
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Everything in the world is actually connected. That means, even if we get separated, we'll never be alone
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They may change their view but I will not at this point in time, ... We will win this case.
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It is historically true that a large proportion of infidels in all ages have been persons of distinguished integrity and honor.
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To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.
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Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen.
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True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that we can befriend our opponents and win their love.
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People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.
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I think people enjoy "The Lobster" because people respond to original things, but I think they only respond to original things if they connect to some truths within us.
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Without life there can be no action — no objects of pursuit — no restless desires — no tormenting passions. Hence it is that we fondly cling to it — that we dread its termination as the close, not of enjoyment, but of hope.
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Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.
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Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
