Brenda Novak Quotes
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You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
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My wife is amazing. She had to know she was getting into a heap of trouble when we met.
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It's great to be mean, it is, it's fun.
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It's my luck to be at the frontier of what looks to be a resurrection of roots music on the international scene. That's really what reggae music is about: that voice against oppression and struggle.
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It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.
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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
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There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
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I've been overseas more than you have in your whole little life.
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Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.
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No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
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I see Earth! It is so beautiful!
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My mother still sends a cake to the office for my birthday.
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When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet. . . indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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"We found you at last,” her mother said, and they both started to cry.
