Marie Stopes Quotes
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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Trust is something I know has to be earned whether you're a husband, a father, or a congressman.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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The scene of independent cinema is already a large scene in America, and not in a negative way, but it's cluttered. It's very populated with just American films, so the room left for foreign movies is not extremely vast. The American public also does not really read. They don't read subtitles. But we're like that in Canada, too.
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Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics – it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.
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Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.
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I am very happy and honored to be part of the Sony ATV family.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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Playing somebody who's still alive is very interesting.
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The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.
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Hollywood is the perfect conduit for the urgent message about climate change. We raise awareness all the time. We routinely take a film that nobody knows about and get 80 percent of the public to know about it in just 30 days. That's called marketing. We need to harvest Hollywood for climate change awareness.
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I think what I do for a living is a privilege, so at the very least, I'd like to think it can be a good time.
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I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics.
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There's a tiredness of abstract intelligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.
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Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.
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You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.
