Lucretia Mott Quotes
The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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I know when you're in the business of cover sports, you look for 60-minute games and a result. It's never that simple.
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I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
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I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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There used to be that you only had four or five critics that you would look to for intelligent conversation, but now there are millions of people who can just press 'send,' and everyone's got an opinion even if no one cares what they say. It makes things a little bit tougher.
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Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren't allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training.
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I like to do things that I want to see myself. With 'Defending Your Life,' I wanted to see some aspect of death other than angels and the thing that 'Ghost' was about, because that didn't make any sense to me. So that's the reason: it fills a hole.
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Anybody great, we're all interested in the relics. If you found an unfinished Gauguin, you'd still want to see it.
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When I'm writing the poem, I feel like I have to close my eyes. I don't mean literally, but you invite a kind of blindness, and that's the birth of the poem.
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The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.
