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“To sacrifice the principles of manners, which require compassion and respect, and bat people over the head with their ignorance of etiquette rules they cannot be expected to know is both bad manners and poor etiquette. That social climbers and twits have misused etiquette throughout history should not be used as an argument for doing away with it.”
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“Usually I get recognized for The Blue Lagoon or Dallas.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Frankly, as much as I love to improvise, it hasn't been difficult to stick to the script on 'Mad Men.' The writing is so precise, and the story so carefully crafted, that I don't think there's room - or need - for ad libbing. I could never come up with dialogue as lovely as these writers do, anyway.”
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“Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.”
Source : Judith Butler (2004). “Undoing Gender”, p.29, Psychology Press
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“Every principle of liberty enunciated in any civilized country on earth, with very few exceptions, was intended entirely for men, and when women tried to force the putting into practice of these principles, for women, then they discovered they had come into a very, very unpleasant situation indeed.”
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“I have many valentines. My mom and my sister and my directors. I got calls from all of them. And my friends. I respect what Valentine's Day stands for because it is about love”
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“Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis.”
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“Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.”
Source : Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt