Lois Frankel Quotes
When I was a young kid, girls were taught that their role in life was to get married and have children. It was the 1950s. Those were the rules.
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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We think that in Mexico, online trading of shares and financial instruments is not going to be as important as it is in the U.S. On days that there is a banking holiday in the U.S., you hardly see any movement here on the stock exchange.
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Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.
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Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
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I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'
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My dad, well, he sells tractors, just like my granddad, and I'm darn proud of that.
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If you look at one of the basic underlying tenets of liberty, it's freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to access of information. If we start sequestering that and blocking it off, you're going to have pockets around the world that are going to become more and more isolated.
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Taking my bike out and riding the bike path along Lake Shore Drive, that's one of the great experiences in my life. And I hope to do it as long as I can.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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When I was a young kid, girls were taught that their role in life was to get married and have children. It was the 1950s. Those were the rules.
