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I think maternal instinct is a male construct that has been used for centuries to keep women in their place, at home.

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• The return to normality is a defeat for the terrorists.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Defeat
  • Return
  • Terrorists

• Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Up
  • World
  • India

• When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.

  

  Nalini Nadkarni
  • Important
  • Nature
  • Deep

• I make mistakes on a very grand scale.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Mistakes
  • Very
  • Scale

• For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Stories

• 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
  • Money
  • Experience
  • Happy

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.

  

  Vic Snyder
  • Country
  • Help
  • Decision

• So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Long
  • Country

• When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Great
  • Death
  • Survival

• Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • People
  • Work
  • Help

• Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Book
  • Day
  • Back

• Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Political
  • Abuse
  • Medical

• At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • Day
  • End

• They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Blood
  • Desert
  • Sand

• If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • People
  • Real
  • Control

• Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • People
  • Great
  • Small

• When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • True
  • Mathematics

• When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Home
  • Play
  • Never

• Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Live
  • Food
  • Water

• Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.

  

  Andy Goldsworthy
  • Life
  • Work
  • Nature

• Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.

  

  Jenny McCarthy
  • Children
  • Experience
  • Nature

• I am sufficiently wary of dangerous situations, but I'm not scared of having a go.

  

  Catherine Martin
  • Dangerous
  • Wary
  • Not Scared

• I think maternal instinct is a male construct that has been used for centuries to keep women in their place, at home.

  

  Leila Slimani
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