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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.


Fannie Hurst

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THOMAS CARLYLE I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.
ETHEL MERMAN As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.
GARRY TRUDEAU As far as festivals, nothing tops Cannes.
SASHA LANE A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.
JOYCE MEYER Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
DICK VAN DYKE Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.
HELENA BONHAM CARTER As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.
JEF RASKIN As far as music, Louis Armstrong is one of my heroes.
JON BATISTE As far as natural ability, I was always athletic.
TROY BROWN That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.
DAVE MADDEN As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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WILLIE NELSON Men, we don't get much, as far as holidays go - Father's Day.
DMX As far as cities go, Havana is a festering treasure chest, a primary color.
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ANDY RODDICK As far as working out, I know exactly what I'm doing.
EVANDER HOLYFIELD As far as groupies, I never saw any of them.
DAVY JONES As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine.
GERHARD SCHRODER Well, real estate is always good, as far as I'm concerned.
DONALD TRUMP A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.
ELBERT HUBBARD An optimist is a man who sees everything half as bad and twice as good as it is.
HEINZ RUEHMAN I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
SAM NEILL And as far as actors go, Peter Sellers is my all-time favorite.
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D. B. SWEENEY As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.
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KANYE WEST As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
NATALIE GULBIS We've actually eliminated Type II polio in the world, at least as far as we can tell.
SETH BERKLEY Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
JOSEPH STALIN As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
ALBERT EINSTEIN As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland.
DONALD TRUMP You know, if it weren't for these fans, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did.
ADAM LAMBERT As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.
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DON HURST It's something we'll certainly take a look at.
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