Frances Perkins Quotes
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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There's a history where, when women get to a certain age in this industry, the roles become strictly the mother, the wife, or the older single woman. There should be more of a variety because there are so many different paths that humans take, and they should be given a platform to be seen.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like '8 Mile.' I used to rap battle.
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Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
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I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me out of my prison - not kill me! You kill me before I understand what life is. You must tell me why you locked me up!
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
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The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.
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I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.
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I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
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One thing I learned working at magazines was that if you couldn't get people to look at a page or a cover, then you were fired. It was all about how you create arresting works, and by arresting I mean stop people, even for a nano-second.
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If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.
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Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
