Gertrude Atherton Quotes
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Anyone can call himself a promoter. Anyone can call himself a promoter and stage a fight. Unlike other professional sports, whose owners collude out of mutual interest in their sport's image and general welfare, there are no real alliances or partnerships in boxing.
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In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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Netflix is something I watch.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.
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Filipino talents and skills are becoming ubiquitous in many parts of the world. Returning Filipino workers have helped improve our skills and technological standards.
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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
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I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics; in life; in spirituality; in business; just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
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There are a few musicians that I know who seem on the outside like very asocial or somewhat unemotional people, people who aren't capable of emotions, and people think they're very cold inside.
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I probably enjoy campaigning more than most other people in public office because I like people and I enjoy going out there and telling people what I've done.
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The massive migration from dumb phones to smart phones is a great opportunity for young companies to take advantage of.
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There's a relationship between music and spirituality and inspiration and to a certain extent improvisation that draws me in, because I don't totally understand it. I know that those relationships have been telling me, since I started making records, where to go. What to write down.
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The rise of women and feminism is well documented. What is equally fascinating - and less talked about - is the impact this has had on men.
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The private sector is the innovation engine of our economy, and more private-sector businesses and organizations than ever are recognizing that training, promoting, and retaining women is essential to their continued competitiveness - and their bottom line.
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When I moved to the United States, I first went to California to be the chef at Campton Place. As much as I loved California, I really missed the seasons. So when I moved to New York, I had that again.
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I grew up in Northern California, and theater is all there was. I didn't know how to go about starting a career when I was 10.
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Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.
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I'm not an actress; I'm not a professional testifier.
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I feel like baggy pants are cool.
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California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices.
