Gerald Brenan Quotes
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I'm no producer's kid.
Tanya Fischer -
There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
Karl Abraham -
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
Zane Grey -
I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Parachute Jump while eating a Nathan's hot dog.
Harold Feinstein -
I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.
Ed Westwick
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...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.
Vaclav Smil -
We are so focused on the material aspects of life that we lose sight of everything else.
Wally Amos -
I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.
Helen Keller -
I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism.
Simone de Beauvoir -
I would like to know how it feels for my desperation to get louder.
Bill Withers -
I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization.
Noah Taylor
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If you think you're going to have an eternity in which you can talk to Mozart and Chopin and Schopenhauer on a cloud and learn stuff and you know really get to grips with knowledge and understanding and so you won't bother now, I think it's a terrible, a terrible mistake.
Stephen Fry -
As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.
Dan O'Brien -
The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown.
Octavia Spencer -
We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a 'dark continent' for psychology.
Sigmund Freud -
Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
Victor Hugo -
Very odd, old age. Always knew it would happen, if I was lucky. I just didn't expect it so soon.
Josephine Hart