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"Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black."
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"Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet."
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"I don't care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don't have to be a lead."
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"If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing."
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"I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl."
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"Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions."
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"Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma's boy."
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"I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building."
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"The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental."
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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"I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing."
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"Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt."
Society
"When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses."
Morality
"Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth."
Earth
"Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black."
Being
"Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission."
Time
"The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves."
Time
"I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential."
Achievement
"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas."
Progress
"There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price."
Personality
"At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else."
Politics
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