Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine....How much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
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Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
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The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.
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I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.
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I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day.
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You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.
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Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.
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If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.
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I've always been a leader my whole life. I've always led. I didn't know how to do anything else.
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You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he ran on, the budget deficit, was in and out of the race a couple of times, and still got 20 million votes, didn't have the Internet.
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I'm very confident in my sexuality, and I really don't like talking about my romantic life in the press.
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I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all a lie on him.
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Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.
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Pity him who lives at homeHappy with his life,Without a dream, a flexing of wings,To make him relinquishEven the warmest ember of his hearth!Pity him who is happy!He lives because life lasts.Nothing within him whispersMore than the primeval law:That life leads to the grave.
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'Man,' said Terl, 'is an endangered species.'
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Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.
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He groaned slightly and winced, like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch.
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I wasn't always this confident. Growing up as the awkward gay kid in a small town in Pennsylvania, you're constantly told, 'Don't be yourself, don't be proud of who you are.
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It's often said that elephants are the most human of animals - there's something comical about their acquiescence, and tragic also. The long elephant poem - I was trying to write from the point of view of someone who had been seduced by the logic of his punishers and who, in a kind of awful way, could reproduce the very logic that had put him in this predicament in the first place. And maybe, in some kind of minor way, that's something I feel about myself, or maybe about all selves, that they fall in love with the thing that oppresses them.
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I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny and I find a lot of the broad comedy which is sent to me, painfully unfunny.
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It's such a private thing. It's a huge decision. It's not like you wake up one day and say, 'Oh, I'm going to change my sex - won't that be fun?'
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It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine....How much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex.
