Bella Abzug Quotes
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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My television and movie career has also taken me all over the world. I've had great times in the Far East, Russia, South America and Sweden - where I met my wife of 55 years, Maj.
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Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
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It feels nice to be loved, but let me tell you there are 10 times more better looking, stylish and talented guys than me. So there's no solid reason for me to be proud! I don't think I have done anything extraordinary to change people's lives.
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I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.
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I've tried to work really hard on never phoning in the lyrics.
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Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.
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I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.
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There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.
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When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?
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The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center.
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You have a choice whether you want to be happy or not. I choose to be happy.
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I am trying to persuade my family to spend more time in China. It's no fun to be in exile. I can't even figure out the basic 26 letters, let alone operate, in English. I often feel that although I've found the sky of freedom above my head, I've lost the soil I stand on. I need to be back in my motherland, where I can find inspirations.
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The atheist market is a very overlooked and powerful market, it turns out.
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'Why must there be war?' 'Oh Lavinia, what a woman's question that is! Because men are men.'
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Edward Smith: What do you think is the characteristic of a really nice person? Some people you obviously do like more than others.Andy Warhol: Ummm, well, if they talk a lot.Edward Smith: What, and don't make you talk?Andy Warhol: Yeah, yes, that's a really nice person.Edward Smith: Thank you, Andy.
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I was very happy. I thought I would cut my way through life.. ..victory after victory, laughing.. Well, I adjusted as soon as they carried me into my mother. Half of my victories fell to the ground.. she pauses ..My mother had victories. her candid, weather-beaten face darkens abruptly
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I always make lists of things I need to get done. I like the sense of having completed one thing so I can move on to the next.
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Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.
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Dude, what matters is if you're happy. What matters is your future. What matters is that we get out of here in one piece. What matters is finding the truth of our own lives, not caring about what other people think is the truth of us.
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I always had a decent sense of outrage.
