Eleanor Smeal Quotes
We've spent too much on how to destroy and blow up things with the military and too little on our health care, and too little on education, and it goes on.
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People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.
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Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.
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It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.
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Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.
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In the same way that our school system feels strongly about requiring vaccinations and annual physicals, I feel strongly that it is essential to add a mental health component to that annual physical.
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What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.
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I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.
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The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.
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I think higher education is over-regulated.
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I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.
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I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.
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I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military.
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You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.
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It is easy to fall into the trap of believing that democracy will improve the function of policy.
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Face your financial issues head on. Open your bills, pick up the phone, call your lender. If applicable, tell them you're struggling and explain why. If you lost your job or took a pay cut, be ready to prove it.
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Folk songs, whatever else they might be, are mainly craft.
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When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised.
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We've spent too much on how to destroy and blow up things with the military and too little on our health care, and too little on education, and it goes on.
