Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
Karl Rove
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
Karl Liebknecht
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
Hamish Bowles
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
Oliver Reed
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
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A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.
T. E. Lawrence
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All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
Paris Hilton
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
Manuel Puig
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Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.
Fatema Mernissi
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If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.
Ozwald Boateng
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It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
Jackie Kennedy
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No matter how much makeup I wore, people just kept saying 'Yes, sir! Would you like tea with that, sir?' 'Yes, I would like tea. Why don't you put it on my breasts?' 'Certainly. Tea for this man's breasts! Anything else, sir?'
Eddie Izzard
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night.
Mary Lou Williams
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The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2.
Kelly Jones
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It was as if the whole western mind-training of individual differences had been made background instead of figure, so that you'd look at another human being and say, 'Here we are.' You'd see differences more as clothing, rather than as core stuff.
Ram Dass
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Postremo nemo aegrotus quidquam somniat tam infandum, quod non aliquis dicat philosophus.
Marcus Terentius Varro
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No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
