William J. Mann Quotes

Here's what's interesting about Katharine Hepburn: she was born a girl but identified as a boy, so she shaved her head and rechristened herself Jimmy.

William J. Mann

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GirlInterestingBornBoySheHead

If you go to the ball game, you don't need to read the game story.

Jim Lehrer

GameStoryYouGoNeedBall

Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.

John Burroughs

YourselfPeopleWoodsYouFindWill

The essential meaning of perestroika for Gorbachev and his supporters was creating and acting on alternatives to failed and dangerous policies at home and abroad.

Stephen Cohen

HomeMeaningActingDangerousAbroad

Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas.

Robert B. Laughlin

GoodLosingSocietyThoughtFlaws

I did a cover for 'Rolling Stone' the other day and it was a kind of crazy lack of outfit. I thought, 'Oh, Lord. I'm never going to be Jane Austen in a film now!' 'Cause that's what I'd really like to do.

Rose McGowan

DayCrazyThoughtStoneOutfitKind

I've come to the conclusion that life is for the taking and just too short to dwell on the negative.

Dolores O'Riordan

LifeNegativeShortDwellConclusion

When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel.

Denzel Washington

MotherLightChildDoorSisterSaid

Collecting shoes is my biggest hobby. I've got a couple hundred pairs of Nikes and Jordans. I got a lot of hats, too. I like to play basketball, but nothing competition wise.

Chumlee

ShoesCompetitionWiseBasketball

It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

Bono

TimePovertyCoincidenceMoreAir

Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought they had enough leverage over the U.S. to cross the Straits of Taiwan.

Bob Filner

GovernmentThoughtEnoughLeverage

I'm such an emotional and sensitive person, so it only makes sense that my songs are as well.

Aurora

PersonEmotionalWellSenseOnly

I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.

Wynn Bullock

NatureTreeMeMeaningWantWeed

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