Alice Roosevelt Longworth Quotes
I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
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If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.
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I'm not really into weight training.
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The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.
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I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week... First things first - that is, values and people here in their local communities, and remembering all politics is local, and trusting people more.
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I think a lot of women, especially ones that want to achieve career goals, tend to worry. I don't want anyone to worry their life away - time goes by so fast, and worry is really wasted time and energy.
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There are characters that become more popular as we fall in love with them.
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My most treasured item is the brown leather bag that my mum bought me from a little Italian shop for my 21st. It's supposed to be a vanity bag, but I use it as a handbag.
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It's nice to actually look done-up, because people see a different side of me, the more girly side. Obviously, I can't do that with cycling. I can't go with nice girly hair and full make-up.
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Whites, like ourselves, belong to our country. They are compatriots, fellow citizens... we see them as Africans.
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What worries me is that, because of the amount of media coverage of food, Britain seems to have become a foodie nation - but I'm not sure it actually has. I'm not sure there's been a huge change in the pantry at home or what we cook for supper.
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Very old music is, like, 11th century in my mind. That's very old.
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Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.
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'He is a lesser figure than X'-how it pleases an Englishman to say that! Never suspecting what basement that would put him in, a wood louse.
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Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads by choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the subtle disciplines
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We will see growth in the U.S., and we will selectively acquire in the U.S., but we prefer to use our global opportunity.
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The person who gets hired is not necessarily the one who can do that job best; but, the one who knows the most about how to get hired.
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In some respects I have been the most unlucky because I have spent more time living as a refugee outside my country than I have spent in Tibet. On the other hand, it has been very rewarding for me to live in a democracy and to learn about the world in a way that we Tibetans had never known before.
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Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed.
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I will always find a defense for characters, and that's why it's fun playing characters that are morally ambiguous, or are at least perceived superficially as being problematic.
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I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
