Ann Cotton Quotes
Women's vulnerability around money is hardly exclusive to Africa. Throughout the world, women struggle with financial power. In the West, women's financial literacy is notably lower than men's. That lack of knowledge means that many women slide into poverty when they become widows.
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That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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I get homesick.
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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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Together with script writers Sid Green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series.
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My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know.
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It's a big plethora of music floating around in my head all the time, and I'll sit there and write a song.
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The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
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There is very little magic in the world of the chronically ill.
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Women's vulnerability around money is hardly exclusive to Africa. Throughout the world, women struggle with financial power. In the West, women's financial literacy is notably lower than men's. That lack of knowledge means that many women slide into poverty when they become widows.
