Bella Abzug Quotes
In Britain the government has to come down in front of Parliament every day to explain its actions, but here the President never answers directly to Congress.
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I'm the type of girl who's always had to buy jeans in three sizes because I never know what my body is going to do from one day to the next.
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit.
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India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
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Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.
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It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
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When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.
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Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.
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Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.
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Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.
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I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.
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I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.
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I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.
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Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.
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I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being.
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It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up.
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I really wasn't into comic books growing up.
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Party leaders aren't responsible for every candidate's gaffe.
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In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well as congress is. But can he, in the nature [of] things, know the wants of the people, as well as three hundred other men, coming from all the various localities of the nation? If so, where is the propriety of having a congress?
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I happily cling to my guns and my God, even if President Obama thinks that that is a simpleminded thing in his elitist heart.
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In Britain the government has to come down in front of Parliament every day to explain its actions, but here the President never answers directly to Congress.
