- Fight
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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
- Engine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
We Americans are mildly interested, of course, in reading about the discovery of radium by Madame Curie, but what we really yearn to know is the name of the uncommemorated French female who first mixed a sauce bearnaise.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't intend 'Hector' to be a self-help book when I first started writing. I wrote it as a little tale about a psychiatrist, like me, who sets off around the world in order to discover the vital ingredients for happiness.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rationale for tenure is still valid. But the system has turned the academy into one of the most conservative and costly institutions in the country. Yes, conservative: Economists joke that their discipline advances one funeral at a time, but many fields must wait for wholesale generational turnover before new approaches take hold.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the children of yesterday, who have grown up and become parents, and to the children of today, who perhaps shout 'Tottigol,' I'd like to think that, for you, my career has become a fairytale for you to pass on.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
- Educating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found so many reasons to call it 'You're Dead!' - not just because I wanted to make this album about the journey through death. I was watching the music scene that I came up with kind of go stale and watching the lights go out on a lot of my friends.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any woman who has ever worked in a gutsy male environment knows that the correct response to a randy remark is an even more salacious retort. But timid feminists don't see it that way. To them, the proper reply is a lawsuit - that safe, modern version of the old slap in the face.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone asked if I wanted to be the first female Bond, and I was saying that I don't think we necessarily need that whole conversation.
- Image
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- Nov 07, 2020
The image of Ireland is projected as a male image in the acting world, similar to the way that the word of Ireland is male dominated.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020