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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I've learned the dangerous lesson of the web: You succeed by giving up control, and that's inverse of the normal campaign.
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Ageing destroys youth, sickness destroys health, degeneration of life destroys all excellent qualities and death destroys life. Even if you are a great runner, you cannot run away from death. you cannot stop death with your wealth, through your magic performances or recitation of mantras or even medicines. Therefore, it is wise to prepare for your death.
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Everyone has the perfect gift to give the world-and if each of us is freed up to give our unique gift, the world will be in total harmony.
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I think acting and psychology are both looking at what makes human beings tick. I've always found that fascinating.
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In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.
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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.
