Anne Cassidy Quotes
Single mothers have as much to teach their children as married mothers and as much love to share--maybe more. Yet their motives are often labeled selfish and single-minded--never mind all the babies brought into the world to snag husbands, "save" faltering marriages or produce heirs.
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When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
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I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.
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'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
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I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
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It's some weird idea to think that you've always got to say everything is great and perfect.
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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.
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Ricky Martin is one of my idols in the industry.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
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I threw my 20th birthday party at Brown, and I didn't even have to say to anyone not to put pictures on Facebook. Not a single picture went up. That was when I knew I'd found a solid group of friends, and I felt like I belonged.
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But the world is out there, and it understands that the illusion of knowledge and freedom is not the same as the real thing. Eventually it will fade, and there are those who will do whatever it takes to make that happen sooner rather than later.
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Twice, adv. Once too often.
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I love going on book tours because it's an opportunity to connect with the people that matter most to my brand.
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Single mothers have as much to teach their children as married mothers and as much love to share--maybe more. Yet their motives are often labeled selfish and single-minded--never mind all the babies brought into the world to snag husbands, "save" faltering marriages or produce heirs.
