Fanny Burney Quotes
In England, I was quite struck to see how forward the girls are made--a child of 10 years old, will chat and keep you company, while her parents are busy or out etc.--with the ease of a woman of 26. But then, how does this education go on?--Not at all: it absolutely stops short.
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
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The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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My baby is the joy in my life.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.
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I don't know how to play easy.
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I have failed to continue to set an example for a secure, loving family unit as an example for our children. That is the reality of it. There is no way of getting around it.
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It's a new skill to have two children that want you at the same time.
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In England, I was quite struck to see how forward the girls are made--a child of 10 years old, will chat and keep you company, while her parents are busy or out etc.--with the ease of a woman of 26. But then, how does this education go on?--Not at all: it absolutely stops short.
