"I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it."

-- Edmund Hillary

#Hate Quotes #Icons Quotes #I Hate Quotes

“Why should you care for a woman like me? I'm always nervous or sick, or sad or too gay.”

Source : "Fictional character: Marguerite 'Camille' Gautier". "Camille", 1936.
“A social group can, indeed must, already exercise 'leadership' before winning governmental power (this is indeed one of the principal conditions for the winning of such power); it subsequently becomes dominant when it exercises power, but even if it holds it firmly in its grasp, it must continue to 'lead' as well.”
“From being a waiter, to a door-to-door salesman, to a car-washer, to a delivery boy - I have done it all.”
“How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go, it is a gilded one, but I shall not live well in it or any cage for that matter.”
“I learned from watching and I learned form doing”
“It is impossible to be submissive and religiously patient, if ye stay your thoughts down among the confused rollings and wheels of second causes, as, O, the place! O, the time! O, if this had been, this had not followed! O, the linking of this accident with this time and place! Look up to the master motion and the first wheel.”
“The world isn't ready for what I have to say.”
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a thirty-something woman in possession of a satisfying career and fabulous hairdo must be in want of very little”

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