Eliza Lynn Linton Quotes
I hold it to be the moral duty of women to make themselves beautiful in all lawful ways.
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My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'
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When I was in my late 30s, I lit a figure on fire on Baker Beach in San Francisco. It was me, a friend, and maybe eight people, tops. There wasn't any premeditation to it at all. It was really just a product of San Franciscan bohemian milieu.
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We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.
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I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
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We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.
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Dialogue is something I don't get a lot of on 'Game of Thrones.'
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Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.
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I have to do something with my mind, or I'll get in trouble.
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I think newspapers will survive in some form or another.
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Most of the sicknesses we suffer from are from the things we eat.
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I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.
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I am an atheist and do not know the meaning of the 'religious pain' that is felt by believers of every cast when what they believe in is insulted.
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Way before we got a record deal, we were playing clubs seven nights a week, three one-hour sets a night. Then we got the record deal, and we took off on the road and stayed out.
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I'd like to say that I knew this would happen, that it's all part of the plan for world domination.
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I'm inspired by antiques. I look at things that have a wink to the past but are also reinterpreted in some way and made to feel modern... and maybe that's what I am.
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I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We have the stellar Michelle Obama setting the standard for American women. I simply cannot say it enough: look how far we've come.
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I had never held a baby in my life. I was one of those women - people would say, "Do you want to hold my baby?" and I was like "No ... "
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I hold it to be the moral duty of women to make themselves beautiful in all lawful ways.
