Frances O'Grady Quotes
My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.
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I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.
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Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
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I started as a teenager going up on commercials.
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I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.
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I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.
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My hero is Roger Federer.
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If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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He was a man, he always performed his promises.
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.
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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
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I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.
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You can always spot a well informed man - his views are the same as yours.
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Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that. The man was tired. He was tired.
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I don't need anyone to look after me financially and, while it's hard to trust that a man loves you for the right reasons, you have to take a leap of faith.
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Why can't I just eat my waffle?
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Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew before, when we feel we have - by some manner of a leap - encountered the truth. That, by the logic of art, is always worth the pain.
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One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.
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My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.
