Eleanor Rathbone Quotes
The struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.
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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
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We play tag and kickball almost every day. It's one of the ways that I've figured out how to spend some fun quality time with my kids while getting exercise.
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Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or an artist. You have to have the material to back it, and it's all about hit songs. I can name you every 'Idol' winner and why they didn't go on to have success - their songs. The ones who have - their songs.
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Being engaged is absolutely a time to cherish!
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I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving through the woods at night and see how long it would be before I scared the pants off my friends - and if I could do it before I scared myself.
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I'd been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked about and having to run up the street, getting chased by people. It was horrible.
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Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.
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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.
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The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.
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When I retired from professional chess in 2005 to join the Russian pro-democracy movement against Putin, I was frequently asked how my chess experience might help me in politics. My answer was that it wouldn’t help much at all, because in chess we had fixed rules and uncertain results, while in Russian politics it was exactly the opposite.
Garry Kasparov -
Put not your trust in princes.
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I would love to do a Fred Astaire/Gene Kelly type movie musical - a fun, song and dance, romantic comedy. Or, even just play the lead in one of those broad comedies - that would just be fantastic.
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I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life!
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That's one of my focuses, is to increase my flexibility and strength and have greater range of motion.
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You can't be rich unless everyone else agrees that you're rich.
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Over and over again women and men ... come to me saying, I don't know enough to write a book for adults, and so I'd like to try a book for children. And I tell them that when they have learned enough to write for an adult perhaps a child will listen to them.
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The struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians.
