Germaine Greer Quotes
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
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Luck marches with those who give their very best.
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Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
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I think from an actor's point of view, you always want something to play that's dramatic or something that feels like it could be very bold in choice. And of course, the boldest possible choice you could play at the end of a character's life is death.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours.
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It's like, boom! – I've got a girlfriend. It turned out to be a good thing because it made me a rapper.
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I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.
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Tiananmen Square in early 1989 attracted many dreamers like Ma Jian, who returned from Hong Kong to a one-room shack in Beijing in order to join the student protests.
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Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.
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The spiritual nature of woman is as little considered as the principles of her historical development. Not only is violence being done to the spirit by a biological misinterpretation and by today's economic trends, but also by the materialistic and fundamental point of view of opposing groups.
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The Tories in England long imagined that they were enthusiastic about monarchy, the church, and the beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about ground rent.
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And I also say Pooh for sweetness and light, And if you want to get the most out of life, why the thing to do is to be a gossiper by day and gossipee by night.
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I think trying to be flashy and doing things that are out of your realm of comfort is the problem with the Divas.
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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
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Suffering gives us no special rights.
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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
