Held Quotes
2520 quotes by 1835 authors
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The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the…
— Naomi Wolf
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We have reached a pivotal time in Indigenous affairs when for the first time, national attention is being paid to the horror of Indigenous family…
— Jackie Huggins
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That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told…
— Rachel Weisz
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Capitalist exploitation and cartels and monopolies are the enemies of underdeveloped countries. On the other hand a regime which is completely oriented towards the people…
— Frantz Fanon
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Anticipating attacks, I should like to emphasize that I do not subscribe to the myths propagated by enemies of Israel and I am not blaming…
— George Soros
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In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the…
— Harry Houdini
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If you can't create physical life, you find a life force. If that's in music, that's in music. I started to find this deep, primitive…
— Tori Amos
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How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power. Not only has…
— Andre Bazin
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Joy cannot be held at heel: it must be let go. Joy is a pilgrim virtue. It is a gift that walks, walks on the…
— Pope Francis
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For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas.
— Brian Setzer
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So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their…
— Donna Tartt
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I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it…
— Frank Norris
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It is often assumed that science starts from facts and eschews counter-factual theories. Nothing could be further from the truth. What is one of the…
— Paul Feyerabend
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I raised my right hand and placed my left on the Quran, which was being held by my wife and mom. Suddenly, I was blinded…
— Keith Ellison
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I could teach an eighth-grader in twenty minutes how to brief a case. Yet for all three years in most law schools the casebook method…
— Gerry Spence
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I’ve held onto Ugg boots. I will never graduate to Crocs, but Ugg boots are always and forever. That’s my fashion stepchild.
— Johnny Weir
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I will give you my definition of a nation, and you can add the adjective 'Jewish.' A Nation is, in my mind, an historical group…
— Theodor Herzl
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I realize that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently…
— Georg Cantor
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In the United States, it is now possible for a person eighteen years of age, female as well as male, to graduate from high school,…
— Urie Bronfenbrenner
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I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this had to be settled by…
— Mavis Gallant
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