Alice Paul Quotes
It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society.
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For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.
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It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience.
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The return to normality is a defeat for the terrorists.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.
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Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about to take up a place at Wadham College, but the war broke out, and he joined the Army instead.
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We don't go against the will of the people.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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He made one laugh sometimes by speaking the truth, but this is a form of humour which gains its force only by its unusualness; it would cease to amuse if it were commonly practised.
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I never make conscious decisions.
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The thought of playing a New York detective scared the hell out of me. I didn't know if people would believe me in the role just because of my physicality, which made me want to do it even more.
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Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
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My goal is always to keep my ears as wide open as possible.
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It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society.
