"In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman."

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Source : My Two Countries ch. 1 (1923)

Nancy Astor

#Funny Quotes #Women Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.”
“But at [soccer] tournaments you tend to see novel, unanticipated trends coming through, with everyone watching each other like hawks and immediately copying anything new. What is really important for every team is to be aware of its own capabilities and find a style which plays to one's own strengths.”
“The starting point of great success and achievement has always been the same. It is for you to dream big dreams. There is nothing more important, and nothing that works faster than for you to cast off your own limitations than for you to begin dreaming and fantasizing about the wonderful things that you can become, have, and do.”
“Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you.”

Source : "Tom Hardy: 'It's a normal human impulse to watch two people kick the hell out of each other'". Interview With Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2011.
“Love is a child that talks in broken language, yet then he speaks most plain.”
“If you want to hear the facts, you are going to have to let me speak.”
“It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But that's really sort of the ideal. Because if we don't discover something about ourselves and our world in the making of a poem, chances are it's not going to be a very good poem. So what I'm saying is that a lot of our best poets could be better poets if they wrote less and risked more in what they do.”

Source : Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.
“I had always sung in my dad's shop. I worked there after school, and I'd be singing along with the top-40 records of the day.”

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