Germaine Greer Quotes

Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.

Germaine Greer

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I hate to rain on anyone's parade or burst the enthusiasm bubble, but talk is especially cheap during an election season.

Meghan McCain

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I've screwed up and I've overcommitted and it's typical of me.

Robert Metcalfe

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The real story of the Ground Zero mosque is that the project only became feasible because of the appalling and astonishing fecklessness of the officials who were charged with the reconstruction of the site and the neighborhood all the way back in 2001.

John Podhoretz

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I'm very realistic in my outlook on everything in life. When I look ahead in my mind to see what's going to happen next, I see the good and I see the bad.

Tom Scholz

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For some people, I will be Forrest Gump for the rest of my life. But that's OK; that's a good thing.

Tom Hanks

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When a person listens to a good song, and they can look out at the world and their lives and see the dark and the light, the negative and the positive, all the different elements, all come together in one holistic poem, that is a very healing and very reductive thing, and that's what my music is about.

Matisyahu

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M. F. K. Fisher was a wonder and a huge influence, and someone I got to know pretty well at the end of her life.

Ruth Reichl

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That boundless freedom of childhood is so wonderful.

Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

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I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric.

Molly Ivins

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There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.

Lorna Luft

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The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Confucius

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There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

Woodrow Wilson

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