Madeleine M. Kunin Quotes
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.
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Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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I used to be so scared about, 'Oh, I don't want to show my body.' Now that I've shown it, it doesn't bug me about my moles, or 'This isn't big enough' and 'That's not smooth enough.'
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.
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I've had a fast track to who I want to be. I know all of my friends are struggling to what to pick in college, and I've been given a fast pass to kick start my future.
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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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Prayers truly from the heart open all doors in Heaven.
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I was never the mascot of the Georgia football team.
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Technology has brought us further than man could ever imagine, and it makes all information available. But it might not do the same exact thing that one human being asking another human being might do.
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We worked very hard on that untitled record to do something different and that we were proud of and to try a bunch of different ideas. It was like this gigantic musical laboratory that we were going to every day. I love that record, I think that's one of the high watermarks of us as a band.
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I think that what scares me more than getting fat during pregnancy is the responsibility of a child.
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Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.
