- Eating
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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
- Horse
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm like a guy hanging down from a horse's belly trying to establish control. On a scale of 1 to 100, I'm at 1, and I'm trying to get to 2. The older I get, the more I enjoy control, because I've lived out of control for a long, long time.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
It isn't that NPR is matriarchal but that it has dedicated itself to not being patriarchal in its outlook and presentation, stipulating from the outset that its headline voices would not resound across the fruited plains from big male bags of air sent from Mount Olympus.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 'The Village Voice,' there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers.
- Guest Star
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- Nov 07, 2020
On August 28, 2010, Fox News messiah Glenn Beck hosted a 'Restoring Honor' revival meeting featuring sexy guest star Sarah Palin, much as Bob Hope would roll out Raquel Welch in white go-go boots on his U.S.O. tours to give our fighting men a morale lift in their khakis.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like female directors that gravitate toward masculine things. I think the danger of a male director is the over-fetishization of the masculinity.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have two children who are daughters, so female issues have always registered high on my scale of awareness.
- Bank
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today we are united, strong and on the move. Today we have a strong strike fund. Today we have the resources to run large-scale organizing campaigns against global employers. Today we have $100 million in the bank.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do know Joe Lansdale has the most extraordinary voice you've ever heard in your life in terms of an accent that, when I started doing it, they had to go, 'Whoa, we need less.' But that's how he talks.
- Female Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
- Ignore
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised primarily by women. I had a mother who almost killed herself to survive, I had a sister who was eight years older who was like a second mother, and my mother had two sisters. In the environment I grew up in, I heard a lot of female perspectives.
- Corruption
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale of votes in exchange for campaign contributions.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a youngish man entering fatherhood when we wrote 'Woods,' a patchwork of classic fairy tales with an original tale sewn in. I had dedicated my libretto to my baby daughter.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020