Elizabeth Wein Quotes
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When women got the vote, they did not redefine voting. When African-Americans got the right to sit at a lunch counter alongside white people, they did not redefine eating out. They were simply invited to the table. That is all we want to do; we have no desire to change marriage. We want to be entitled to not only the same privileges but the same responsibilities as straight people.
Cynthia Nixon
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A kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara is forever.
Marilyn Monroe
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We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.
Sandy Duncan
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In the film industry, we tend to pick up where others have left off, and Id like to think the influences I picked up from Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone and Jean-Claude Van Damme are visible in my work.
Scott Adkins
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Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.
Bill Gates
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A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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Targets don't fight crime.
Theresa May
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Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it does actually make you a bit more adaptable for other forms.
Warren Ellis
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If Europe’s example is any guide, here are the two secrets of coping with expensive oil: own fuel-efficient cars, and don’t drive them too much.
Paul Krugman
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It never became an obsession for me to score at all costs. I've always said that I'm not a big scorer, I'm a worker.
Eden Hazard
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And so, in spite of his virtues, he was a frivolous, superficial man, an animal organism who dripped sweat and fluids and left behind, like the residue of a careless pleasure, living material conceived, nourished, shaped within female bellies.
Elena Ferrante
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Careless talk costs lives.
Elizabeth Wein