Madeleine M. Kunin Quotes
If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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I had good skills, but my lack of size and speed kept me a little behind the best kids in the other sports. Golf offered a more level field. I would have rather played other sports, but golf picked me.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
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I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
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I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.
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I will never leave the theater. My heart is there, and I love being on stage 8 times a week.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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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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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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You realize mortality is everywhere.
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I'm so American that I had grandfathers who actually fought a battle against each other.
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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
