Frances O'Grady Quotes
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.
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I am flirtatious by nature, but I have never hurt anyone.
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.
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You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.
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The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.
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I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.
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I don't think anyone has qualms in saying victory to the people of India. But when a political party appropriates such a slogan and says this is the definition of patriotism, those who say it are patriotic and those who don't are not patriotic, then I reject that definition.
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Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.
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To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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I'm very worried about the future of separation of church and state: will it survive in a meaningful way? I'll tell you, there are a very large number of people throughout this country whose values, statements, and conduct appear to place them in some alternate universe governed by some constitution they apparently found while cleaning out their sock drawer. It is not the American “living” Constitution that reflects, increasingly, the search for individual freedom and justice: in other words, what the Constitution's purpose is.
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When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me!
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I had a Stuart Davis poster growing up.
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Here's what I think," I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my noise like whispers of truth. "I think maybe everybody falls," I say. "I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking." I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening. "I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it; let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.
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I am a feminist and I have no problems being called that.
