Leonora Carrington Quotes
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When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.
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Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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Quiet is the new loud.
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But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
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Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
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Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.
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The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don't give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.
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I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin' like myself.
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I think when you're a TV presenter, you have to have a reason for doing it, and a lot of them have been around a long time and grafted for that. The reason why it works with me on 'The Xtra Factor' is because I was a contestant on it, and I have a relationship with the viewers at home.
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I saw the S.B.A. with just enormous potential, and that's what I told the president - this is really a jewel.
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Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries famously lasted 72 days, and was reported in the tabloids as being all about the big bucks paid by magazines for the bridal photos: it is a spectacle of a bride-to-be as entrepreneur, not as romantic heroine; the groom, in this scenario, is nothing but a prop.
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Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.
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If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.
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I have always had a mystical attitude toward inspiration. That's my nature.
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Things can be done under the incentive of terror and fear that can not be done when the fear disappears.
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Rememberest the gods, and that they wish not to be flattered, but wish all reasonable beings to be made like themselves; and... rememberest that what does the work of a fig-tree is a fig-tree, and that what does the work of a dog is a dog, and that what does the work of a bee is a bee, and that what does the work of a man is a man.
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What it takes to produce a gravitational repulsion is a negative pressure. According to general relativity, it turns out... both pressures and energy densities can produce gravitational fields, unlike Newtonian physics, where it's only mass densities that produce gravitational fields.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.
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When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.
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The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest convictions in the public arena. Now it means those convictions are not even subject to rational debate.
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I'm not ashamed to be gay.
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What would anyone want to write about me for? I'm just an old lady.
