Estelle Ramey Quotes
Our society and our organizations have learned to value masculine, 'quick-fix' traits in leaders. In a primitive society, a rural society, or even the industrial society of the early 1990s, quick fixes worked out all right. But they are less likely to work in a complex society. We need to look at long-range outcomes now. Service and patience are what can keep things running effectively today and women can contribute a lot in both of these areas.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.
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I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.
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I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I'm much more of a girl that's a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.
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The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly.
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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
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I don't want to sit around the house. I want to be out there. I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.
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The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.
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In both the world of fashion and politics, what's required to succeed is passion, dedication, and vision.
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Some of my corresponents seem to think that I can work wonders. Let me say as a devotee of truth that I have no such gift. All the power I may have comes from God. But He does not work directly. He works through His numberless agencies. In this case it is the Congress.
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A dark unfathom'd tide Of interminable pride - A mystery, and a dream, Should my early life seem.
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I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life. Life is - the way God has given it to me was just a platter - a golden platter of life laid out there for me. It's been beautiful.
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Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with.
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We wanted to be America's Rolling Stones, to be the biggest band over here.
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With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests.
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One of the nicest things about receiving the accolade of Australia is that, previously, the knighthood was historically for what was termed 'the establishment.' Now, this is an accolade for somebody who comes from a working-class background. Someone whose father was a truck driver and decided to buy a truck.
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I think we're always looking for an excuse to connect.
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A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
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It Might As Well Be Spring... I used to sing that as a young girl in my voice lessons. Then I picked it up again and it spoke to me in a whole new way.
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Our society and our organizations have learned to value masculine, 'quick-fix' traits in leaders. In a primitive society, a rural society, or even the industrial society of the early 1990s, quick fixes worked out all right. But they are less likely to work in a complex society. We need to look at long-range outcomes now. Service and patience are what can keep things running effectively today and women can contribute a lot in both of these areas.
