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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
Rita Mae Brown
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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. The great difference between sport and art is that sport, like a sonnet, forces beauty within its own system. Art, on the other hand, cyclically destroys boundaries and breaks free.
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I don't think there is a 'gay lifestyle.' I think that's superficial crap, all that talk about gay culture. A couple of restaurants on Castro Street and a couple of magazines do not constitute culture. Michelangelo is culture. Virginia Woolf is culture. So let's don't confuse our terms. Wearing earrings is not culture.
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If you don't like my book, write your own.
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I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.
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Never let anyone or any social attitude stand in the way of your productivity.
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Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know.
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One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
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While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, Man, And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
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As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
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Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.
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So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.
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Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.
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Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.
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...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone seems to forget the poor white farmer.
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When God made man she was practicing.
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I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.
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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
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Familiarity breeds consent.
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I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
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Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.
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