Alice B. Toklas Quotes
The first gathering of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine?
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research.
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Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mother relationship, but they extend to all people with whom woman comes into contact.
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As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
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It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.
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If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
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With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.
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If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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Every country I would go to, even if it was just on a modeling job, I would go to their markets. If I went to Morocco for 'Elle' magazine, I would be in the spice markets during my off time and just come back with a suitcase full of stuff that I really wanted to try.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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It's really crazy to be 36 years old and to have been doing something for 25 years.
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America cannot become just a service and financial services economy, and to prevent that, there is no substitute for having people with successful, real-world manufacturing experience in Congress.
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I stand up to people.
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Losing people makes you realize you've got to grab life - not put things off.
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The world is a never-ending cross-reference.
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I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
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The first gathering of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine?
