W. C. Fields Quotes
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Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.
Gabrielle Giffords
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
Samuel Goldwyn
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
Manju Warrier
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
Orhan Pamuk
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I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
Madeleine Albright
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In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.
Wangari Maathai
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I've always been like this - insecure - because I'm striving for something that can't be attained. I don't just want to be OK at this: I want to be the best at it, and I've never achieved that in my mind.
Victoria Pendleton
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The worst thing would be for a Canada to develop a Hollywood. This is an industry we are going to have to fight to defend. We have to compete now so productions stay here. We don't want entertainment to be like the steel industry.
Xavier Becerra
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
Nancy Meyers
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I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
Fanny Kemble
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When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny.
Rainbow Rowell
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A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.
Yogi Berra
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The more insight I get, the more scared I get of women in general.
Dan Byrd
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Sometimes women who are taller aren't comfortable with it, but I love being tall.
Venus Williams
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I want to be in 'Glee', but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.
Carey Mulligan
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Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.
Adam Cohen
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I want to know that I gave my 100 percent, and even if it doesn't work, you know that you gave everything, and you don't have to look at it and say... I could have gave more - that would break my heart.
Venus Williams
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I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television.
Callie Khouri
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There was a time when researchers imagined that Plan B, or the morning-after pill, might become not an emergency form of contraception but a routine one; women would take it once a month to induce a period and never even know whether they had gotten pregnant.
Nancy Gibbs
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And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.
Carl Yastrzemski
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When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
Emile Coue
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Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.
John Clayton
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I asked him to say hi to my mom to prove he was there, and he was really great and nice and talked to her for a couple of minutes. My mom said she nearly fell off her chair, she was so excited.
Sasha Cohen
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Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.
W. C. Fields