Louisa May Alcott Quotes
I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.
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We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.
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From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and violence has been quite mythologized.
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Did you know there's probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part.
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My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to alter my mind. They are a kind, sympathetic race of people and naturally proud of their country.
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Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.
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I think ballet has influenced my personality a lot in the sense that I am very disciplined in all of my endeavours. I am always on time; I take things very seriously. I've built up my inner strength and self-esteem over time as I've improved as a dancer.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.
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I'm not out for quotas. I'm out to attract the best young men and women of our nation.
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Women's propaganda must touch upon all those questions which are of great importance to the general proletarian movement. The main task is, indeed, to awaken the women's class consciousness and to incorporate them into the class struggle.
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But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.
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The ideal is a world in which every woman and girl can create the kind of life she wishes to lead, unconstrained by harmful norms and stereotypes.
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I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.
