Georgette Heyer Quotes
Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me!
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
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The movie business is a big gamble.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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Language usage always has a political context.
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I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.
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For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.
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You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.
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I've learned from every single fight, every single opponent - some great fighters.
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We have an obligation to our men and women in uniform - and to future generations - to do something about the issue of climate change.
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I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.
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I'm gonna be honest. I don't care about much. I care about people liking my music. I made it very far without nothing being on radio.
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I hate to lose more than I like to win.
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Sitcoms routinely portray women hitting men, almost never portray men hitting women. When he fails to leave, it is not called 'Battered Man Syndrome'; it is called comedy.
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I am very proud of my service, and by law, I am defined as a combat veteran.
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But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
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I don't come from a musical family at all, but I realized early on I was a musician. I started begging for a piano when I was 6 years old.
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I have never gone out to mingle with the world without losing something of myself.
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HAVING WON THE RIGHT TO vote, a number of women believed that they had in the process won the right to redefine the very notion of femininity. Geoffrey Perrett summarizes: Before the First World War women were arrested for smoking cigarettes in public, for using profanity, for appearing on public beaches without stockings, for driving automobiles without a man beside them, for wearing outlandish attire (for example, shorts, slacks, men’s hats), and for not wearing their corsets. Women accused of such offenses against public order and common decency were summoned before the courts, not only of small towns, but of big cities such as Chicago. In less than a decade these prosecutions stopped, simply because they seemed as absurd as they were futile.
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Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me!
