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“Legislators consistently put the political imperative before the national interest.”
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“To see for themselves what the United States has been willing to undertake in the name of freedom. We should all visit Normandy. We should pay homage to those brave Americans who stormed ashore at Omaha Beach and gave their lives for the freedom of others.”
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“If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the thrill of their own essence and drift through life without identity, like a human fog, feeling sorry for everyone.”
Source : John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”
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“Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.”
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“What is love?/ One name for it is knowledge.”
Source : Natasha Trethewey (2012). “Thrall: Poems”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“It's rare in life to look at all the people around you and realize that they're all invested in what you're doing.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“Attempts to juggle domestic responsibilities with artistic production have often resulted in smaller bodies of work, and often works smaller in scale, than those produced by male contemporaries. Yet art history continues to privilege prodigious output and monumental scale or conception over the selective and the intimate.”
Source : Whitney Chadwick (2007). “Women, Art, and Society”
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“For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.”
