Alison Lurie Quotes
Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian custom of loading women's legs with pounds of heavy brass wire are extreme examples, but all over the world similar stratagems have been employed to make sure that once you have caught a woman she cannot run away, and even if she stays around she cannot keep up with you. ... Literally as well as figuratively modern women's shoes are what keeps Samantha from running as fast as Sammy.Alison Lurie
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I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.
Natalie Cole -
Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.
Katarina Witt -
I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
Laila Ali -
If I wasn't an actress, I'd never wear make up. I liked being ready in half an hour and arrive on the sets. Even for a no-makeup look, if one has a dark under-eye on a particular day, a little makeup is used. I had no scope for that as well.
Rakul Preet Singh -
Sometimes women who are taller aren't comfortable with it, but I love being tall.
Venus Williams -
There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.
Aaron Sorkin
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The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
E. O. Wilson -
The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
Samuel Butler -
Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.
Rand Beers -
When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.
Katarina Witt -
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Dag Hammarskjold -
Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.
Gail Sheehy
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde -
The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.
Xavier Niel -
I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.
Rafael Nadal -
One of the most beautiful things in the world I've ever seen or heard is people laughing, even when there seems to be so little reason for them to laugh.
D. L. Hughley -
Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.
La Monte Young -
My whole approach is very much about using the locations as a world, trying to find the beauty in the time of day we shoot or the ugliness of it, in cases.
Garth Davis
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One of the most intensely unlikeable figures of the twentieth century, fanatical anti-Semite, enemy of labour unions and proud recipient of medals from Nazi Germany, where Hitler held him in veneration, Henry Ford was also an employer who paid his workers more than his competitors, an innovator who pioneered the assembly line and a visionary whose part in the creation of the twentieth century was so great that Aldous Huxley, in his Brave New World, prefigured a society whose calendar was divided into BF and AF-Before Ford and After Ford.
Stephen Fry -
Most people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but when I look back at my life, I don't think very much about those years. I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.
Frank Abagnale -
In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
Harold Bloom -
I always chose the byline.
Amy Chozick -
Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian custom of loading women's legs with pounds of heavy brass wire are extreme examples, but all over the world similar stratagems have been employed to make sure that once you have caught a woman she cannot run away, and even if she stays around she cannot keep up with you. ... Literally as well as figuratively modern women's shoes are what keeps Samantha from running as fast as Sammy.
Alison Lurie