Anthea Butler Quotes

The survivors of Hurricane Harvey do not need empty tweets and platitudes from people like Donald Trump and Joel Osteen. They have shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that, as we say in Texas, they are all hat and no cattle.

Anthea Butler

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I love that as a theme for women: Stop standing by! You've got to make stuff happen! You've got to create your own world because if you let other people do it, they're going to just screw you.

Melissa Rosenberg

LoveWomenPeopleWorldYouCreate

I was world champion. For me, chess is my life. It is everything.

Anatoly Karpov

LifeMeWorldChampionMy Life

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

Sophocles

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Going to the gym is great for your body, but it's also great for your mind.

Rory McIlroy

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My idea of a night out is actually a night in - in pajamas, with a good book or playing 'Mario Kart.' It's not that glamorous.

Ronan Farrow

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English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.

Roy Blount, Jr.

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I've been bullied about my appearance since forever.

Michaela Coel

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I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers.

Lisa Scottoline

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Life's too short. We have to love each other.

Drew Barrymore

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I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.

Conrad Hall

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Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

Swami Vivekananda

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I moved from Denmark to America. I left my family. I left my school. I left my friends. And it was basically to pursue my career, and I didn't know if it was going to work out. So that was very scary to leave everything and just put everything into a whole new thing where you don't know if you're going to make it or not. But I think I'm doing good.

Nina Agdal

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