Memorable Quotes - Page 5

• Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Inspirational, Winning, Political

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• A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

  Edna Ferber

  Women, Struggle, Looks

  1954 In Reader's Digest, Dec.

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• The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

  Ruth Gordon

  Success, Speech, Wells

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• The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

  Agnes Repplier

  Inspirational, Tourists, Complaining

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• No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

  Sara Teasdale

  Friendship, Women, Possessing

  Sara Teasdale (1933). “Strange victory: by Sara Teasdale”

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• Whoever was shouting about dictatorship there... when I heard that, I thought: it's better to be a dictator than gay.

  Alexander Lukashenko

  Gay, Dictator, Shouting

  "Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko: 'Better To Be A Dictator Than Gay'" by Lidia Kelly and Ben Harding, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2012.

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• Russell Brand has announced that he plans to write a series of children's books. First up: 'Horton Hears a Heroin Dealer.'

  Joan Rivers

  Funny, Sarcastic, Children

  Twitter post from Apr 09, 2014

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• The fun of working on the road means stealing from hotels. I've been doing it for so long, I have a set of towels from the Ark.

  Joan Rivers

  Fun, Mean, Long

  Twitter post from Jun 26, 2014

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• Found out. A nothing player.

  Eamon Dunphy

  Player, Found

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• My job as a designer is to make a woman feel her very best.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Jobs, Designer, Feels

  "Oscar de la Renta's Fashion and Feminism rules". Slide 4, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 21, 2014.

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• Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.

  Lauren Bacall

  Men, Interesting, Dinner

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• If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.

  Robin Williams

  Fighting, Disease, Indifference

  "Fictional character: Hunter Patch Adams". "Patch Adams", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• Forget the past and live the present hour.

  Sarah Knowles Bolton

  Inspirational, Past, Forget

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• When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.

  Arthur Miller

  Today, Tomorrow, Failing

  Arthur Miller (1998). “Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem”, p.7, Penguin

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• Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

  Ruth Benedict

  Faith, Future, Long

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.125, Transaction Publishers

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• Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

  Peg Bracken

  Cutting, Two, Doe

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• Women power is a formidable force.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Women Power, Force, Formidable

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• Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.

  Julia Child

  Work, Women, Food

  Julia Child, E. S. Yntema (1979). “Julia Child & more company”, Knopf

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• I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the "dahling" thing got started?

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Women, Thinking, Names

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

  Edna Ferber

  Women, Sight, Should

  Edna Ferber (2014). “A Kind of Magic: An Autobiography”, p.159, Vintage

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• Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

  Anne Frank

  Girl, Women, Thinking

  "The Diary of a Young Girl". Book by Anne Frank, 1952.

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• The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

  Celia Green

  Women, Science, Research

  The Decline and Fall of Science Aphorisms (p. 1)

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• I don't mind being miserable as long as I'm painting well.

  Grace Hartigan

  Women, Long, Mind

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• A year from now, I could go away, and people might say, 'Gosh, what ever happened to that girl who never wore pants?' But how wonderfully memorable 30 years from now, when they say, 'Do you remember Gaga and her bubbles?' Because, for a minute, everybody in that room will forget every sad, painful thing in their lives, and they'll just live in my bubble world.

  Lady Gaga

  Girl, Years, People

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• That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.

  Taylor Mali

  Teacher, Art, Teaching

  Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.21, Penguin

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