Marguerite Young Quotes
There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.
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I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.
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Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
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The sea erupted. Often the sea and land changed places. The immobility of contours of continents and seas, a dogma in geology, has no basis in fact. And immediately there is the problem of the climate. There were ancient climates that were very different from what they are today. If those corals grew where they were found, certainly the Earth was not travelling with the same elements of rotation and revolution which means not in the same orbit, not with the axis directed in the same position as it is today. If you don't believe it, try to conservate corals on the North Pole.
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What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances...
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Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.
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We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get away from each other. We need proximity and distance, conversation and silence. We almost always get more of each than we want at any one time.
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The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.
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There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.
