Eleanor Smeal Quotes
There's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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I'm a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker.
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It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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Entrepreneurial Philanthropy is not just a philosophy or a dream. It is a promise that philanthropy is at its best when it is founded on entrepreneurial zest and agility.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
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And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.
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My dad used to give me a lot of spankings. Anything I did wrong, he was on me. I was raised by a strict disciplinarian. He kind of laid down the law.
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When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.
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It is ironic to watch the churches, including large sections of my own religion, surrendering to the spirit of modernity at the very moment when modernity itself is undergoing a kind of spiritual collapse....
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Practice smiling by holding a pencil between your teeth for twenty minutes.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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I think higher ed in the U.S. is fairly healthy, and by global standards it dominates, and it makes people more productive. But a lot of our K-12 is a disaster. And the single most important reform would just be to fire the worst ten or 15 percent of teachers in the lot, and we would have massive improvements.
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That's a lovely starting point for me as an actor: the question of what will we - or can we - do with this lot of years with which we're blessed? More than my other films, 'The Danish Girl' is about the gigantic risks involved in being true to one's self.
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There's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them.
