Lauren Bacall Quotes
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
Octavio Paz -
When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
Flannery O'Connor -
I was considered an ugly duckling.
Eartha Kitt -
Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Victor Hugo -
While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
Samuel Dash
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It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
Abby Wambach -
Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.
Barbara Boxer -
If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.
Rainbow Rowell -
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar Wilde -
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Obviously I've gone out of my way in my career to not look good, so it's always nice to, every once in a while, get the opposite going.
Kate Flannery
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In the '80s, I got tired of the rat race. It was a terrible time for music. I wasn't part of that whole MTV craze. I did 'Go Ahead and Rain,' which was Madeleine Stowe's first bit, but felt no connection to it. I went many years where I didn't have to work.
J. D. Souther -
The growth of women's soccer and women's sports all around the world has been slow.
Abby Wambach -
We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer's needs.
Eckhard Pfeiffer -
A lot of film stars are just playing themselves in different frocks.
Imelda Staunton -
Environmentalists have been outspoken in their support of smaller family size and abortion rights as keys to reducing global warming. But when it comes to immigration, the single biggest contributor to population growth in the industrial world, they stand largely silent.
Gary Bauer -
There are no tough guys in wrestling.
Randy Savage
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Each individual member of a co-operative society works with that interest which is inseparable from the new position he enjoys. Each has an interest in the other.
Leland Stanford -
Metaphysical fallacies contain the only clues we have to what thinking means to those who engage in it.
Hannah Arendt -
I first saw 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They?' when I was very young. Its transporting qualities were so strong that I felt like I had lived it. Only recently, with adult eyes, was I able to metabolize how tragic a tale it really is.
Jake Paltrow -
I have no doubt in my mind that the new generation has a sense of unity and sensitivity that previous generations lacked. We are strong, and we are visionaries beyond just money.
Barbie Ferreira -
We spent too much time attacking Gordon Brown and Labour rather than setting out our own plans. People had decided they wanted change - the thing they were not sure about was the alternative we were offering, so going on and on about Labour missed the point.
Michael Ashcroft -
Patience was not my strong point.
Lauren Bacall