"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience."
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"It's really hard to get stories made that are about women. Not just women being obsessed with men, or supporting men. And it's really hard to get men to be a part of films that are about women in a leading role. I'm really interested in how we can adjust that."
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"Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope."
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"I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing."
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"All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space."
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"You are far too smart to be the only thing standing in your way."
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"On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup will fly so close to Earth that it will dip below the altitude of our communication satellites. We did not name this asteroid Bambi. Instead, we named it Apophis, after the Egyptian god of darkness and death."
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"I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great."
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"I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea - have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included"
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"Never do an enemy a small injury."
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"Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature."
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"Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you've been waiting for."
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"I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living."
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"If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty."
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"Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt."
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"Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free."
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"When we build, let us think that we build forever."
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"If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all."
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"Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human."
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"Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes.... The only people who still call hurricanes acts of God are the people who write insurance forms."
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