Beeban Kidron Quotes
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Naturalization is the process by which a citizen, or subject of a foreign nation or kingdom, is made a citizen of the United States. It is evident that the Constitutional Convention thought that it was important that this process should be placed under the exclusive control of the Federal Government and not of the States.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.
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I love baseball, and the door remains open.
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I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'
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My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.
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Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.
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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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You have to be a little commercial, and that's what I learnt over the years.
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
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DO NOT HARM THE THINGS WHICH ARE TARZAN'S. TARZAN WATCHES. TARZAN OF THE APES.
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We need no chieftain; such folk eat more than their share.
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To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo. It's often said that men use women. Use them for what? Surely not pleasure.
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Knowledge about things beyond our immediate environment may be acquired through deduction, if the initial premises are believed to be correct.
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My pen and paper causes a chain reaction, to get your brain relaxing.
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I think there's a moral imperative when you're writing fictional heroes to give characters who somehow give us something to aspire to as opposed to dragging them down to our level.
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Greed and competition are not the result of immutable human temperment…greed and fear of scarcity are in fact being created and amplified …the direct consequence is that we have to fight with each other in order to survive
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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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I believe that children have to grow up as all-round personalities, but it cannot be at the cost of academics.
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It has occurred to me that possibly the white corpuscles may have the office of picking up and digesting bacterial organisms when by any means they find their way into the blood. The propensity exhibited by the leukocytes for picking up inorganic granules is well known, and that they may be able not only to pick up but to assimilate, and so dispose of, the bacteria which come in their way does not seem to me very improbable in view of the fact that amoebae, which resemble them so closely, feed upon bacteria and similar organisms.
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Our politicians don't say anything anymore: they just refute and assert.
