Bridget Christie Quotes
I don't mind being called a hairy, humourless lesbian because that is what I aspire to be.
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
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I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.
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I became famous almost before I had a craft.
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'When I was a child I dreamed of adventure, glory, honor in feats of arms. I think now that these things are shadows.''If you see them as shadows then you see them for what they are,' Annlaw agreed. 'Many have pursued honor, and in the pursuit lost more of it than ever they could gain.'
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If you're the only anything in the room, you're going to feel so self-conscious of your right to be there.
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I now have a plan - I haven't had a plan up until this year.
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I probably shouldn't curse as much as I do.
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I wish people were realer in talking about how leaps of faith don't have to be taken without at least looking down first.
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I love cult movies. I probably have watched 'Big Trouble In Little China' more than anyone on the planet.
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I think, in some ways, that is the balm of stories, of fables, of tales: it's the way we're wired. We have always needed to distill what we're going through and try to understand it by looking either backwards or forwards. And the hardest is to look in the now.
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[Pragmatism's] only test of probable truth is what works best in the way of leading us, what fits every part of life best and combines with the collectivity of experience's demands, nothing being omitted.
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Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.
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I havent really thought about where to scatter my ashes when the time comes, but I doubt that it would be in space.
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Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.
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When you procrastinate, you're more likely to let your mind wander. That gives you a better chance of stumbling onto the unusual and spotting unexpected patterns.
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The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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All societies make necessary moral distinctions between high crimes and misdemeanors, mortal and lesser sins.
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If Adam had had a real hairy back, we probably wouldn't be here today.
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I suspect the soviets never did want to use those bombs. The most Stalinist of Soviet hard-liners - Stalin, for example - must have realized a nuclear war would be a hard thing to clean up after.
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We have to give a sense of economic liberation to the masses and for that, I think the basic thing we have done or we attempted to do, in the beginning, and we have not yet completed that process, is that of land reforms. I think some of the Indian states have been successful in bringing about land reforms but to get a sensation of economic empowerment in society, even a bit of land of their own, is necessary for the common people and it has been shown by Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, which have achieved remarkable economic successes, that land reform was one basic prior thing they did.
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It is instructive, although somewhat disheartening, for the ardent advocate of a purely scientific psychology to contrast the practice and theories of his colleagues with those of the students of the principal physical sciences.
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I don't mind being called a hairy, humourless lesbian because that is what I aspire to be.
