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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When Title IX was passed I was quite naive. I thought all the problems of sex discrimination in education would be solved in one or two years at most. When two years passed, I increased my estimate to five years, then later to ten, then to fifty, and now I realize it will take many generations to solve all the problems.
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I used to work for a succession of software editing companies that would have contracts with state and federal agencies. And I would be the documenter of meetings, sometimes doing limited business analysis. I began to become quite cynical about how the world works. It works on ineptitude and inefficiency and a kind of passiveness.
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I don't think about the media.
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I am a feminist and I have no problems being called that.
