Bella Abzug Quotes
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I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
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I just want to do my job.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
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The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
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Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.
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A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.
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Starting with the values that feel authentic to who you are can serve as a compass to find more meaningful, fulfilling work.
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I was talking to a woman last night. I said, 'I’m not like other people.' She started to giggle. Then I raised my voice and said evenly, 'That’s one blessing God gave writers - they’re not like other people!'
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Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
