"As an adult I generally feel this pressure to be thin, not from men, but from other women. As a silent or not-so-silent competition, a constant monitoring of who's thinner, comments about it - either compliments or veiled insults doesn't matter - it always drives me nuts."

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Kate Christensen

#Men Quotes #Nuts Quotes #Competition Quotes

“My ability to function effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander-in-chief.”
“Well, Clive, it's all about the two Ms - movement and positioning.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.”

Source : Uta Hagen (2009). “Respect for Acting”, p.117, John Wiley & Sons
“There is no reason to believe that the Holy Spirit ever leaves awakened sinners, only as they leave the truth of God for some error or sin.”
“I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was.”
“[John] Calvin is revered as a thinker of immense importance in Reformed thought, Jonathan Edwards could say in his preface to his treatise on Freedom of the Will that he had derived none of his views from the work of Calvin, though he was willing to be called a "Calvinist" for the sake of convention.”
“LABOUR, like all other things which are purchased and sold, and which may be increased or diminished in quantity, has its natural and its market price. The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, on with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.”
“Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.”

Source : Algernon Sidney (1763). “Discourses Concerning Government”, p.366

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