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Anne Baxter: Idleness is a...

Anne Baxter: Idleness is a...

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable,...

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Jacqueline Bisset: You've got to...

Jacqueline Bisset: You've got to...

You've got to work on your voice, it's your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where...

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Gypsy Rose Lee: Anything worth doing...

Gypsy Rose Lee: Anything worth doing...

Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.

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-- Gypsy Rose Lee,...

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Joan Rivers: Yeah, I read...

Joan Rivers: Yeah, I read...

Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.

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Phyllis Diller: Always be nice...

Phyllis Diller: Always be nice...

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

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Rita Rudner: Someday I want...

Rita Rudner: Someday I want...

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to...

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Patti Smith: Rock n' roll...

Patti Smith: Rock n' roll...

Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?

Source: In An Uncommon Scold, by...

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Edith Head: Your dresses should...

Edith Head: Your dresses should...

Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a...

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Berenice Abbott: Photography can never...

Berenice Abbott: Photography can never...

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be...

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Louise Nevelson: True strength is...

Louise Nevelson: True strength is...

True strength is delicate.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith...

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Grace Hansen: Don't be afraid...

Grace Hansen: Don't be afraid...

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.

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Harriet Tubman: Yes, John saw...

Harriet Tubman: Yes, John saw...

Yes, John saw de City. Well, what did he see? He saw twelve gates, didn't he? Three of dose gates was on . . . de...

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Ernestine L Rose: Slavery and freedom...

Ernestine L Rose: Slavery and freedom...

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.

Source: Speech, 14 May 14 1863, at a...

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Margaret Fuller: The especial genius...

Margaret Fuller: The especial genius...

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, and spiritual in...

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Germaine Greer: Human beings have...

Germaine Greer: Human beings have...

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called...

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Jeanne-Marie Roland: A fondness for...

Jeanne-Marie Roland: A fondness for...

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in...

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Marian Wright Edelman: Parents have become...

Marian Wright Edelman: Parents have become...

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for children that they forget that they themselves...

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Jane Addams: In his own...

Jane Addams: In his own...

In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his...

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Florida Scott-Maxwell: You need to...

Florida Scott-Maxwell: You need to...

You need to claim the events in your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done,...

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Helen Keller: I long to...

Helen Keller: I long to...

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great...

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