Quotes 3061
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
- Rebecca West
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Interviewer - Youve written about the theme of foreignness a good deal.
Margaret Atwood - Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire, or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.
- From the Paris Review
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Now, Charlotte, you must try to forgive my shortcomings. Or at least describe them to me, so perhaps I can explain or understand.
I I dont think I can.
There was a silence for a moment; then they heard rain beginning against the windows.
In a voice of desperation, Gray said, What did I do wrong? When his self-control gave way, it went completely. A great sob rose up in his chest and made him double over. For Gods sake, Charlotte, please tell me what I did wrong.
Gray held out his hand to her, but Charlotte would not take it.
My dear girl, he sobbed, Whatever it was, can you not forgive me?
Confronted at last with the outline of the thing that had lain for so long unrealized in her mind, Charlotte was too terrified to look.
No, she said. No, I cant.
- Charlotte Grey, by Sebastian Faulks
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I don't pretend to be captain weird, I just do what I do.
- Johnny Depp
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History, despite its wrenching pain,
Cannot be unlived, and if faced
With courage, need not be lived again.
- Maya Angelou
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A primary reason people don't do new things is because they want to be able to do them perfectly first time. It's completely irrational, impractical, not workable and yet, it's how most people run their lives.
- John Roger and Peter McWilliams
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Dick Cheney insists on link between Al Qaeda and Kevin Bacon. Al Qaeda was trained by the CIA which was created by Harry Truman who dropped the bomb which was conceived by the Manhattan Project which was a movie starring John Lithgow who was in Footloose with Kevin Bacon.
- Tatsuya Ishida
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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein
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It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
- Alan Cohen
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
- Rebecca West
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Interviewer - Youve written about the theme of foreignness a good deal.
Margaret Atwood - Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire, or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.
- From the Paris Review
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Now, Charlotte, you must try to forgive my shortcomings. Or at least describe them to me, so perhaps I can explain or understand.
I I dont think I can.
There was a silence for a moment; then they heard rain beginning against the windows.
In a voice of desperation, Gray said, What did I do wrong? When his self-control gave way, it went completely. A great sob rose up in his chest and made him double over. For Gods sake, Charlotte, please tell me what I did wrong.
Gray held out his hand to her, but Charlotte would not take it.
My dear girl, he sobbed, Whatever it was, can you not forgive me?
Confronted at last with the outline of the thing that had lain for so long unrealized in her mind, Charlotte was too terrified to look.
No, she said. No, I cant.
- Charlotte Grey, by Sebastian Faulks
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I don't pretend to be captain weird, I just do what I do.
- Johnny Depp
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History, despite its wrenching pain,
Cannot be unlived, and if faced
With courage, need not be lived again.
- Maya Angelou
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A primary reason people don't do new things is because they want to be able to do them perfectly first time. It's completely irrational, impractical, not workable and yet, it's how most people run their lives.
- John Roger and Peter McWilliams
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Dick Cheney insists on link between Al Qaeda and Kevin Bacon. Al Qaeda was trained by the CIA which was created by Harry Truman who dropped the bomb which was conceived by the Manhattan Project which was a movie starring John Lithgow who was in Footloose with Kevin Bacon.
- Tatsuya Ishida
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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein
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It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
- Alan Cohen