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 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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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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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 have matured with the realization that I can live without a man!
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I am a man who is noble. I have a good heart, but at the same time, I'm a little malicioso. There's no way of hiding that side.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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I was never built to play the hero. Physically or emotionally... And they're not as rewarding to play. At least for me.
Antony Sher -
What women need to understand is that men don't communicate. It's not intentional or on purpose. We're just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.
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I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him.
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Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.
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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.
