Kathleen Hall Jamieson Quotes
Sisterhood is a powerful metaphor; it ought not become a synonym for groupthink.
Quotes to Explore
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War means fighting, and fighting means killing.
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The soul, he said, is composed Of the external world.
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There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.
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Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they read.
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It's very strange: I watch a lot of interviews with other actors that I know saying, 'Oh we had a great time; we're best buddies,' and I know for a fact that they didn't, and they actually hated each other.
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I never worked a job that required research. I'm not really good at it, to be honest.
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How can you know God if you don't know your big toe?
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I hate cosmetics companies. They get you addicted to the perfect lipstick or nail polish and then, six months later, they discontinue it. You have to buy your favorite colors like you're storing up for the Apocalypse.
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Express your admiration for the traits, possessions or accomplishments of your customer. Little things mean a lot.
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Could it be that those who were reared in the postwar years really were spoiled, as we used to hear? Did a child-centered generation, raised in depression and war, produce a self-centered generation that resents children and parenthood?
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I adopted a pet because I have been wanting one for the longest time. In fact, I am really close to Ravi Dubey's dog Moyo.
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I wanted to make a concrete impression; the idea of a woman that is free, moody, never the object, one that has a complete control of her finances and knows how it is to be independent.
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But the voice goes on, calling us, beckoning us, luring us to think that there might be such a thing as justice, as the world being put to rights, even though we find it so elusive. We're like moths trying to fly to the moon. We all know there's something called justice, but we can't quite get to it.
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Whatever kind of story you're telling, whether it's a genre piece for a comic book or whatever it is, it has importance because it's all a metaphor for the existence of our being.
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Detroit is a metaphor for America, for America's challenges and America's opportunities. It is a hothouse for new innovation, for ingenuity and risk taking. That doesn't happen in a lot of American cities. We need to be in Detroit because of that.
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Don't use men to get what you want in life. Get it yourself.
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Environmentalism is a luxury. Just like being a vegetarian is a luxury. When you have to worry about eating - you're not going to be worried about where the food's coming from, or who made your shoes. Poverty, whether planned or not planned, is a way of making environmentalism moot.
