Bernadine Dohrn Quotes
I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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I'd like to do more family dramas.
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I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.
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I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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It's interesting – in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.
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Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.
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I remember, as a kid, I couldn't wait to get my library card, get my first book. There was a sphinx on the cover, and I figured I was going to read about the Egyptians. But it was this archeology. It was so dry. But I forced myself to read it because it was my first book out of the library. Should have gotten a 'Hardy Boys.'
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When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute's thought to what would happen if we won. When we did - and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary - it changed my life. But it didn't change the world.
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I have always been fascinated by paleontology and prehistoric people, and I've always thought that one of the most intriguing moments in human history was the birth of artistic imagination. I always loved those cave paintings.
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I say it's a girls' world.
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I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.
