Quotes 961 till 980 of 2607.
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I try to focus moment to moment on being an aware, responsible, contributive member of society. You see trash on the ground, pick it up!
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I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
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I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.
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I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?
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I want to be the best actor that I can be; I want to be working in this business absolutely, and if that means being a movie star, then OK, that's fine. But to me, movie star, celebrity, all that stuff means something very different than being an actor.
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I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.
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I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.
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I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.
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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.
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I was asked to memorize what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
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I was in a cab in New York. The cab had a sign, Please do not smoke, Christ is our unseen guest. This guy was reaching. I figure, if he could overcome being nailed to a cross, I don't think a Marlboro Light's gonna faze him that much.
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I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
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I was in the unenviable position of being for the war, but against the troops.
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I was the first woman to speak ever at the National Press Club, and they gave me a necktie.
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I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring, presenting these songs in their purest form.
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I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising.
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I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman.
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I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
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