Eleanor Smeal Quotes
I'm not going to say that all the cabinet appointments of the men and women, you know, obviously we might have some reservations on some, but the women's movement has congratulated them for some of the appointments and is urging and encouraging more women in the Executive Branch and high areas.
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.
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I have to be seen to be believed.
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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
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People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You're laughing one minute and you're crying the next and that's just life for me, and that is what people are like.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teaching.
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I never really tell anyone what I'm writing beforehand because I usually don't know what it will be.
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If I didn't do something perfectly, I had to do it again... I grew up with a glue gun pointed at my head.
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Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.
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It's not like the right for gay people to marry just happened.
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I started the label Tzadik to support an entire community of musicians, not just Jewish musicians. But the radical Jewish culture movement was begun in a lot of ways because I wanted to take the idea that Jewish music equals 'klezmer' and expand it to, 'Well, Jewish music could be a lot more than that.'
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I'm not going to say that all the cabinet appointments of the men and women, you know, obviously we might have some reservations on some, but the women's movement has congratulated them for some of the appointments and is urging and encouraging more women in the Executive Branch and high areas.
