Eleanor Rathbone Quotes
Continually measuring women's wants by men's achievements seems out of date, ignominious, and intolerably boring. ... Now that we have secured possession of the tools of citizenship, we intend to use them not to copy men's models but to produce our own.
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Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
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I'll say anything to live.
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I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema.
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In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
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Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten.
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A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
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It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.
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They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother.
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If I am confirmed to this position, my first priority will be to maintain consistency and continuity with the policies established during the Greenspan years.
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Too many bright colors make for congestion. Too many bright colors need, above all, contrast in value, to eliminate vibration.
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Wearing makeup is an apology for our actual faces.
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Patience is idling your motor when you feel like stripping a gear.
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Anyone would be lying if they said they didn't get lonely at times.
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Every golfer can expect to have four bad shots in a round and when you do, just put them out of your mind. This, of course is hard to do when you've had them and you're not even off the first tee.
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Well I am always interested my people's right. But I will push myself to a revolution without arms.
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The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of progress and damp the sprits of its friends all over the civilized world... [The American Civil War] is destined to be a turning point, for good or evil, of the course of human affairs.
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I got kind of scared when I thought they wanted me to do something... I didn't want to be naked on the front of a magazine unless everybody would know it was a joke. I wouldn't want to be naked even then.
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No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
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Fear can be a natural ally, a homemade power source... Staying in the present, fear can only help you.
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Continually measuring women's wants by men's achievements seems out of date, ignominious, and intolerably boring. ... Now that we have secured possession of the tools of citizenship, we intend to use them not to copy men's models but to produce our own.
