Adrienne Rich Quotes
No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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I'm always about, 'What is the most productive version of what I'm putting into the world?' Something that can be engaged by all folks. I don't have to change everyone.
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Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.
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Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.
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I spent a couple of years not doing any music or anything, just here in Hawaii trying to get healthy and adjust to the new regimen I was setting up for myself.
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I don't really mind not being a part of a film - because if there is no part for me, I will never force myself upon a film. I feel like it's just a distraction. If it is not organically incorporated into the story, it just feels like a stupid appearance, like a sort of wink. I hate that.
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When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers.
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One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.
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My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.
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I would say I'm voluptuous. Statuesque. Definitely curvaceous.
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It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.
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You just have to be yourself and go full with confidence and be courageous.
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Being successful doesn’t make you manage your time well. Managing your time well makes you successful!
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I have heard that man can acquire superhuman powers through it and perform miracles. I saw a man who had brought a ghost under control. The ghost used to procure various things for his master. What shall I do with superhuman powers? Can one realize God through them? If God is not realized then everything becomes false.
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Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it.
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He must have known me had he seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognise me by my face.
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I am an Agnostic because I am not afraid to think. I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
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I'm stubborn, which is not necessarily admirable.
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There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than the applause of the whole outside world.
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When I read that Khal Drogo role, I was blown away. I couldn't believe it was happening. I had to have that role.
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Voters 'sent me to Washington to vote no against excessive Federal spending, against forced busing of little schoolchildren, and to vote no against the forces who have driven God out of the classroom.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
