Gertrude Atherton Quotes
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I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.
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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.
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I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.
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I can't figure out how you can hire a coach and tell him how you want him to play.
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The truth is I love musical theater and always have.
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There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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I'm the kind of person who doesn't really focus on more negativity. I'm a positive person, and I look at things in a positive way.
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I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games... But then I said to myself, 'This is a sport that's blessed me with a home, with an education, with some money. I can't hate this sport. This sport took me out of Louisiana. This sport gave me a chance when so many people don't get a chance. And I love this sport.'
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The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
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When you are in your 20's and 30's, you just want a hit record and you don't really care how it happens.
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Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.
