Quotes with woman-being

Quotes 961 till 980 of 2607.

  • Bryce Dallas Howard 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!
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Edward Gibbon 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.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Richard J. Needham 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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  • Andy Warhol I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard 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.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Alanis Morissette I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Confucius I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Dolly Parton 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.
    Dolly Parton
    American singer and songwriter (1946 - )
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  • Adam Clayton 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.
    Adam Clayton
    Irish musician (1960 - )
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  • Aleister Crowley I was asked to memorize what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Charles Manson I was crazy back when being crazy really meant something.
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  • Bill Hicks 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.
    Source: Dark Poet
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Virginia Woolf I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Bill Hicks I was in the unenviable position of being for the war, but against the troops.
    Source: Love, Laughter and Truth
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Gloria Steinem I was the first woman to speak ever at the National Press Club, and they gave me a necktie.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Bryan Adams 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.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 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.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Charlotte Brontë I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Buchi Emecheta I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • Umberto Eco I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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