Agnes Smedley Quotes
There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
Olivier Theyskens
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
Walt Handelsman
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
Maajid Nawaz
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
Nas
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
Kaki King
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
Felicia Day
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
Marat Safin
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Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.
Pam Grier
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
Samuel Johnson
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It really comes down to being able to inspire others by being comfortable with yourself. You have to show girls that everyone is different; everyone has things they don't like, but they work it and walk the runway.
Olivia Culpo
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
Cameron Diaz
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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.
Zinedine Zidane
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I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day.
Iman
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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.
Mandy Moore
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
Taylor Dayne
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I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.
Ian Anderson
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
Wangari Maathai
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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.
Malcolm Fraser
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Perish that thought! No, never be it saidThat Fate itself could awe the soul of Richard.Hence, babbling dreams! you threaten here in vain!Conscience, avaunt! Richard ’s himself again!Hark! the shrill trumpet sounds to horse! away!My soul ’s in arms, and eager for the fray.
Colley Cibber
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I fell in love with the darkroom, and that was part of being a photographer at the time. The darkroom was unbelievably sexy. I would spend all night in the darkroom.
Annie Leibovitz
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Your success isn’t about you and your performance. It’s about us and how we perceive your performance.
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
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For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced.
Jim Walsh
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There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.
Agnes Smedley