Quotes 1941 till 1960 of 2676.
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The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.
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The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going to happen! That's the nature of drama. Most of the things that get made or basically grisly detective shows about murders, accidents or medical dramas.
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The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point.
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The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.
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The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.
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The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
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The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.
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The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.
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The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
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The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.
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The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.
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The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as possible to string along with your delusions.
The Human Stain (2000) -
The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.
De zelfmoord van de meisjes (2008) -
The side that feels the lesser urge for peace will naturally get the better bargain.
On War (1832) -
The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.
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The single moment when I knew that I had to get busy and do more was around the death of my son.
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