Memorable Quotes - Page 7

• I don't really understand what a dictator is, but on the other hand I sometimes, in a nice way, envy myself," he said. "I am the last and only dictator in Europe and indeed there are none anywhere else in the world.

  Alexander Lukashenko

  Nice, Hands, Europe

  "Belarus President Lukashenko in his own words". Interview with Richard Balmforth, www.reuters.com. November 27, 2012.

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• The genius writer was correct. In obtaining freedom, man suddenly understands that he has shouldered a heavy burden, because freedom involves responsibility. A person must make decisions himself and himself answer for them.

  Alexander Lukashenko

  Responsibility, Men, Decision

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• A thug only understands you when you speak his language

  Alexander Lukashenko

  Thug, Language, Speak

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• Comedy - and I say this with humility - comedy needs me.

  Joan Rivers

  Humility, Needs, Comedy

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• He's fat and a clown, Bill, a fat clown for all to see.

  Eamon Dunphy

  Bills, Clown, Fats

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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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• Women power is a formidable force.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Women Power, Force, Formidable

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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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• 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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• 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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• No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it.

  Tom Clancy

  Doe, Matter, No Matter What

  "Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology". Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.

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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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• 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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  I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

  Lauren Bacall

  Love, Beauty, Thinking

  Quoted in Daily Telegraph (London), 2 Mar. 1988

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• The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Women, Character, Race

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• Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Love, Life, Birthday

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• Ronald Reagan was a traditionalist - who purposefully, effectively unleashed innovation and change in himself, in the nation, and in the world. He was a "great communicator" who achieved memorable intimacy with the people everywhere - yet he was often disengaged from his own family.

  James M Strock

  People, Innovation, World

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• I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

  Agatha Christie

  Mother, Thinking, Laziness

  Agatha Christie (1990). “An autobiography”

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• Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

  Agatha Christie

  Crime Novels, Literature, Can Do

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Hercule Poirot's casebook”, Putnam Adult

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• I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

  Agatha Christie

  Believe, Book, Writing

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• We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.

  Erma Bombeck

  Taken, Fighting, Thinking

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• People change and forget to tell each other.

  Lillian Hellman

  Relationship, Change, Marriage

  Lillian Hellman (1960). “Toys in the Attic: A Drama in Three Acts”, Dramatist's Play Service

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• I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

  Lillian Hellman

  Women, People, Speak

  "Untamed Tongues : Wild Words from Wild Women". Book by Autumn Stephens (p. 132), 1993.

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• I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Sex, Women, Inferiors

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• Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Women, Acting, Four

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