Alan K. Simpson Quotes
I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
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Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.
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In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!
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One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.
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When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny.
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Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away.
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My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.
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When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.
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I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control.
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I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.
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There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
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My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.'
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The women putting their lives at risk for our country deserve better than to be treated as second-class citizens.
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Men view life to be as precious as women do, and to say that men have a more violent nature is insulting to men.
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I stopped playing in Jr. events when I was 12 and played women's.
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I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.
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When Californians see something we truly believe in, we say so and act accordingly - without evasiveness or equivocation.
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'Dancing with the Stars' was a really great experience. People were definitely surprised that I'm a fighter, or they couldn't believe I'm a professional fighter, but I feel like I'm going to get that for a while. I'm excited to bring a new demographic over to MMA and the UFC.
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If you look in the animal world, many, many organisms will enter into states of suspended animation.
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The woman I design for is very curious. She loves fashion, but she also is passionate about what is happening around the world.
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I tell young people to reach for the stars. And I can't think of a greater high than you could possibly get than by inventing something.
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'Scarface' was a tremendous undertaking, and I'm one of those who really feel that no one could have done it like Brian De Palma.
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I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.
