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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The U.K. and the U.S. could not have been built today without Africa's aid. It is all the resources that were taken from Africa, including human, that built these countries today! So when they try to give back, we shouldn't be on the defensive.
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My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.
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Our waterboarding program is based on the U.S. military training program... tens of thousands of U.S. servicemen were waterboarded pursuant to this program to prepare them for the possibility of being captured someday so that they would know what it felt like.
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I hadn't even released my first proper single when I started to feel the strain of attention. But I don't believe that it was the attention that was giving me panic attacks. I think it was everything in my life colliding at the same time. It really did get to a serious point where I couldn't even walk down the street without getting the pain.
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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.
