"Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials."

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"I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman."

Graham Greene, British Playwright

Effect, Importance, Man, Woman

"Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

Effect,

"For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established."

Wilhelm Ostwald, German Scientist

Effect, Order, Water

"In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect."

Andrew Coyle Bradley, American Judge

Effect, First, Play, Thinking

"Well, in pharmacology, if the effect is local, it's of course absolutely awkward to use it in any other way than as a local treatment."

Arvid Carlsson, Swedish Scientist

Effect, Treatment

"With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to the issue of what we actually look for or find in reading a poem."

Thomas Harrison, American Historian

Effect, Investigation, Question, Reading

"Neil's effect on the band was immediate and very fulfilling. He adds a certain edge to the sound and, of course, he is an incredible musician. We became a better band because of the inclusion of Neil Young."

Graham Nash, British Musician

Effect, Sound

"The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that."

George Wald, American Scientist

Effect, Heaven, May, Saying

"It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the amount of, say, six degrees warming, but it's likely that we'll get two to three degrees warming and that will be serious enough."

Bjorn Lomborg, Danish Scientist

Effect, Global warming, Will

"The Emmy will have no effect on me, from the standpoint that you've still got to wash your bowl after breakfast."

Charles Keating, American Lawyer

Effect, Will

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"People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there."

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"I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older."

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"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."

Movies

"I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do."

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"Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person."

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"For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends."

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"I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman."

"Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect."

"For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established."

"In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect."

"Well, in pharmacology, if the effect is local, it's of course absolutely awkward to use it in any other way than as a local treatment."

"With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to the issue of what we actually look for or find in reading a poem."

"Neil's effect on the band was immediate and very fulfilling. He adds a certain edge to the sound and, of course, he is an incredible musician. We became a better band because of the inclusion of Neil Young."

"The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that."

"It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the amount of, say, six degrees warming, but it's likely that we'll get two to three degrees warming and that will be serious enough."

"The Emmy will have no effect on me, from the standpoint that you've still got to wash your bowl after breakfast."

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"People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there."

"I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older."

"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."

"I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do."

"Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person."

"For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends."

"I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work."

"The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy."

"Expensive clothes are a waste of money."

"It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead."