Eleanor Holmes Norton Quotes

There are not many males, black or white, who wish to get involved with a woman who's committed to her own development.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

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You go to a pop concert or a classical concert but there's nothing in between.

Andre Rieu

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I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest.

John Updike

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My sister and I wrote some songs together under a project called Sala Says Mhyp when I was 17. Sala is our cat. She died, and we wanted to do something in honor of our her. We were a proper cat family.

Sigrid

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Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.

Robyn Hitchcock

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As the World Champion, every day is pretty much like Valentine's Day for me - as far as hooking up with the ladies.

Judah Friedlander

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Maybe strong leaders are not quite as alluring as we think, and we should celebrate the fact that our leaders are just like us. Just because one candidate can't remember his whole speech and the other likes to put his feet up on the job doesn't mean they can't govern.

Jonathan Powell

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Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer.

Jon Postel

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I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress.

Deborah Moggach

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In my experience, working as an intelligence analyst with my own pool of sources numbering close to 100, by far the most effective forms of human intelligence collection are rapport-building and direct questioning.

Chelsea Manning

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If anyone ever tells me something doesn't go together, it makes me want to try it.

Christian Scott

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The prevailing mentality was that the Church must not be a Church of laws but, rather, a Church of love; she must not punish. Thus, the awareness that punishment can be an act of love ceased to exist. This led to an odd darkening of the mind, even in very good people.

Pope Benedict XVI

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My only concern is that the L.A. Times opinion pages, unfortunately like too many in this country, are dominated by men, and I'd like to see that change.

Susan Estrich

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