Elsie Clews Parsons Quotes
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You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff always has music, even a bunch of my comedy stuff - like in 'Shrek,' the donkey is always singing. Music is always there.
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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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'The View' was so much fun. So much fun because the audience was 85-percent fans that wanted to be there celebrating 'One Life to Live' and the other 15 percent were crew members from 'One Life to Live'. It was just really, really wonderful and the clips were wonderful.
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My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.
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Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.
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Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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I was brought up in a house full of women; the first time I realised no one was interrupting me was when I was on stage - that's probably the subconscious reason I became an actor.
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I've made a professional reputation playing working-class, middle-class, American women. There's a real sense of stoicism and pragmatism and strength and lyricism of a woman like that.
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Even if I wouldn't wear something myself, I think I know how women feel, how women want to look. I can really relate to women, I get on very well with women... Some women don't. I want to empower women, make women feel the best version of themselves.
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I think it turned the whole sport around. It got everybody's attention. People who were watching TV live were jumping up and down in their living rooms.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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Women have been such an important part of my life. I try, every day, to be a better father to my daughters and a better husband.
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People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.
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I've heard people say in the U.N. community among mediators they don't like women as mediators because they're too quick to compromise.
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You have to make time and tend to things that are important in your life so you can live the life of blessing God has promised you!
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I regard affirmative action as pernicious - a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women.
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Women need a space that quenches their intellectual hunger, engages and empowers them with relatable content.
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The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.
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The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be.
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A Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd.
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One of the surprises to me was the willingness of many people in the conservative media to roll over, to abandon long-held conservative principles, and to embrace Donald Trump.
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Women try hard to live down to what is expected of them.
