Gail Sheehy Quotes
I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.
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Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.
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I'll tell ya, when you open up that can of dab, it's always fresh.
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I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!
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Coming to another hockey Mecca like Toronto makes you a better coach. I want to have fun again. I want to make it fun for everybody, and it's fun when you win.
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Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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My quick beauty tip is always have a tinted gloss of some kind to give you some color even if you have no makeup on.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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I really sort of kept to myself. I kind of just watched the world. And I think to keep people from messing with me, yeah, you know, I went out to run track. I went out for the football team. Not because I love track or love football.
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On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
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There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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I think maternal instinct is a male construct that has been used for centuries to keep women in their place, at home.
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Courage? The moment when my troubles are going to end is not the moment when my courage is going to fail me.
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Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
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Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.
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I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.
