Lynn Coady Quotes
In the late sixties, when revolution and upheaval were everywhere, feminists were ridiculed for focusing on housework.
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I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
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Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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U.N. Security Council resolutions are only as effective as their enforcement.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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No one person is an island.
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Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
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I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.
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Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.
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Reinforcement is being right.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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My human rights activism has been widely met with encouragement and support. Ahangarani should earn plaudits, not only for her cinematic achievements, but also for her humanitarian deeds and her commitment to increased rights and freedoms for all.
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The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.
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I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected.
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We declare our belief in Jesus Christ and accept Him as our Savior. He will bless us and guide us in all of our efforts. As we labor here in mortality, He will strengthen us and bring us peace in time of trials. Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints walk by faith in Him whose Church it is.
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Obviously, a big part of the American Revolution was there would be no Church of England the way there was in England. There was a specific attempt not to have an established church.
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I never burned down synagogues. It was a revolution, and Russians burned churches during their revolution. If there are many different nationalities in a country, the leadership should be divided among people by percentages. In finance, press, radio - the Jews had taken over positions. That feeling existed before Hitler.
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In the late sixties, when revolution and upheaval were everywhere, feminists were ridiculed for focusing on housework.
