Madeleine M. Kunin Quotes
The very qualities that make it harder for women to get elected - not being part of the old boy's network - gives them the advantage of having fresh, and yes, clean faces.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
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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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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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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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A lot happens in 20 years.
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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I think young generation is always better than last generation. No matter you like it or don't like it. My father said, 'Jack, I'm so good, you'll never be' - but I'm better than him. My father is better than my grandfather. My children will be better than us.
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Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn't want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn't mind having a crack at something like the Punisher.
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I keep going to New York every year for 20 to 25 days. I love it there, but I can't imagine settling in any place other than India.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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I'm into Gucci a lot, like vintage '70s everything. I'm into Versace.
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I really like Miranda Lambert. She has a great voice.
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And what a clever guy this Harpole is, isn’t he? Awfully good at noticing all kinds of little unusual things about people and keeping them on file in his head. So he’s built a theory around us, has he? He added two and two and came up with five, but nobody else in the house was aware there was anything to count.
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What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.
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It's true, I've become one of those grumpy older women.
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The very qualities that make it harder for women to get elected - not being part of the old boy's network - gives them the advantage of having fresh, and yes, clean faces.
