Alice Roosevelt Longworth Quotes
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.
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My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.
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We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I'm going to say my favorite thing is to eat salads, and I'll be like the altar boy.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.
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The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.
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If something is a comedy for the sake of just comedy's sake and it doesn't have a good message, I don't have an interest in being part of it. If something is just serious and scary with no good message, I don't want to be a part of it.
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America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.
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The history of our era is the nauseating and repulsive history of the crucifixion of the procreative body for the glorification ofthe spirit.
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If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
