- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ale Quotes
A small, varied set of reflections.
This is a modest, loosely connected collection, grounded mainly in a historical comparison of the scale of wartime scientific effort between two countries. Other entries touch briefly on film ratings and the kinds of scripts actors look for. Related quotes appear in our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
A dark room with some low-level whale music and a flat bed and a woman pulling your shoulder back and forth is a happy place.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason why those female celebrities are always in filthy moods is not because they're being hounded by men with massive cameras or because Ridley Scott cancelled their film. They just want to get their hands on a cheeseburger.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest motivation for me is becoming a three-division world champion faster than any other boxer, male or female.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My coach never looked at me as a female fighter, but just as a fighter, as someone he was training. I had to work just as hard as the guys, or harder than them.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother turned 40 in 1973. So in 1970 - when 'The Female Eunuch' came out and Ms. magazine was founded - my mom was 37 with two children, and she was just that little bit too old, and the circumstances of her life were set up in a certain way that for her to fulfill her ambitions and dreams, she would have had to break with the family.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't need a specialty lame (French for 'blade') to make professional-level bread at home, but it certainly helps in creating those telltale slash marks. You need a truly razor-sharp edge to make a clean cut; even a sharp paring knife will drag as it moves through the wet dough.
- Incomparable
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- Nov 07, 2020
Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor.
- Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible.
- Calm
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to break that typical Asian female stereotype. There's this standard where they're all calm. I want to break that.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the interesting things about being a female police officer in the '60s is they really didn't have opportunities to do any serious police work - they filed, and they made coffee, and they were treated like secretaries.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a new mother was a joyful and sometimes overwhelming experience - and as the first Missouri female state legislator to have a baby while in office, having heath care for myself and my son gave me some needed peace of mind.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020