Madeleine M. Kunin Quotes
Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman's insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
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A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.
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Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I'm painfully middle class.
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The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.
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Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.
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We've got the power of the purse in the Congress.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I was the first woman to win a Tony for directing, but the second woman came along five minutes later.
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Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman's insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups.
