Eleanor Smeal Quotes
Toys today are more stereotyped than they were 20 years ago; the market is even more segmented. And they can go into their own kitchen anytime they want, for God's sake. On the other hand, maybe it doesn't matter because girls are doing everything anyway, even being soldiers.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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As much as I hate auditioning - it's so hard and awkward - it's way better to walk out of that room and win a role because of what you did.
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We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God.
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The quality of education that children receive early in life has a bearing on their later life that we may never fully understand.
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Toys today are more stereotyped than they were 20 years ago; the market is even more segmented. And they can go into their own kitchen anytime they want, for God's sake. On the other hand, maybe it doesn't matter because girls are doing everything anyway, even being soldiers.
