"I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them."

-- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

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“Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.”
“During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: “Your eminence, are you not aware that I have the power to destroy the Catholic Church?” The cardinal, the anecdote goes, responded ruefully: “Your majesty, we, the Catholic clergy, have done our best to destroy the church for the last 1,800 years. We have not succeeded, and neither will you.””

Source : "A Time for Contrition". www.nytimes.com. March 28, 2010.
“I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it.”
“One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.”
“His [Pitt's] successor as prime minister was Mr. Addington, who was a friend of Mr. Pitt, just as Mr. Pitt was a friend of Mr. Addington; but their respective friends were each other's enemies. Mr. Fox, who was Mr. Pitt's enemy (although many of his friends were Mr. Pitt's friends), had always stood uncompromisingly for peace with France and held dangerously liberal opinions; nevertheless, in 1804, Mr. Fox and Mr. Pitt got together to overthrow Mr. Pitt's friend Mr. Addington, who was pushing the war effort with insufficient vigor.”
“The child has a primary need to be regarded and respected as the person he really is at any given time, and as the center - the central actor - in his own activity.”
“Animal testing is needless, especially in cosmetics.”
“In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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