Bosie (Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas) Quotes
It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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What I'm concerned about is making sure that every single time somebody who grew up with us goes off to a different platform or a different device, we're going to be there with a Univision-branded product of some kind.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
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We never wore burkas because Somalis had our own culture.
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I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
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If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.
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There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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I want to be up front racing.
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The perception of linked fate and that feeling of being always on the spot as a representative of the race, at least in mixed company, are features of African American life that predate affirmative action and arise outside of its presence.
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When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.
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I'm very spiritual and I'm Jewish by faith. I'm not a practising Jew, I'm more of a recreational Jew. I celebrate the holidays and I try to inform my kids about their heritage because I think we all at some point have to defend our heritage and if they get picked on I want them to know why.
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The Church is larger than any one nation or any one political scene.
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With me as the glaring exception, my father molded the world around him to his liking. The problem, of course, was that Baba saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.
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People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar. We need that in our lives, the mix of the new and the old. But of course I'm flattered about the comparison with Old man and the sea. Hemingway is a great writer.
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Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.
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It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round.
