Kim Alexis Quotes
I know that I have raised my sons to be big, strong, independent men who love God, themselves and care for others. I have to learn to let them have space and learn without me.
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The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.
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I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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Foucault is one of many who want a new conception of how power and knowledge interact. But he is not looking for a relation between two givens, 'power' and 'knowledge.' As always, he is trying to rethink the entire subject matter, and his 'knowledge' and 'power' are to be something else.
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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In literature, older women are not often given center stage.
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I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
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At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
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I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
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The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
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Freedom is popular. Bring it on.
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My style is definitely not ladylike - frills and bows kinda scare me - but I like the military look because I love that olive green khaki color.
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If you set your story in Rome, Ireland or Sheboygan, for that matter, go there. If you're broke, set it in the town where you live, or where you grew up.
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Don't lecture me on race relations. I don't have a molecule of prejudice. I've been in battle with every kind of man there is. I've been in bed with every kind of woman there is - from a Laplander to a Tierra del Fuegian. If I'd ever been to the South Pole, there'd be a hell of a lot of penguins who looked like me.
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If only we could realize that our purpose is to be caretakers. We are responsible for leading our flock to the place where the grass is green, but it is up to them to eat! We cannot be responsible for how much they digest. We cannot make people mature.
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I know that I have raised my sons to be big, strong, independent men who love God, themselves and care for others. I have to learn to let them have space and learn without me.
