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It ain't really what you'd call change. It's all happened before and it'll happen again with a different set of facts.


Gloria Naylor

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ANNIE BAKER We're filled with all sorts of facts about things that have happened in our lives, and there's no se...
EDWARD VOGEL We want police to clarify the facts behind the scandal so it will not happen again.
KAZUO KITAGAWA Life is happening so make it happen before it's happened
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PAULO COELHO …evils are not caused by God; rather, that they are a part of the nature of matter and of mankind;...
CELSUS change the entire culture of prescribed fire and to make sure that it doesn't happen again.
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EUGENE FIDELL Before you ask someone what happened, ask yourself do I really care.
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MATISYAHU Hurt's a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don't change facts.
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DIANA ROSE MORCILLA What happened yesterday was obviously a mistake, and it will never be spoken of again. Goodbye forev...
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RICK PITINO Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. [Lat., Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.]
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ANDREW COSTON We've cleared all of that and I don't think it will happen again,
RICK PARRY The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, i...
THOMAS JEFFERSON We all have our ups and downs and mistakes we wish to correct. We all have our flaws and will always...
SEAL OF APPROVAL When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?
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GLORIA GAYNOR The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that ...
GLORIA STEINEM Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.
GLORIA STEINEM Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.
GLORIA SWANSON I think everyone envisions me sitting at Alexandre's all day, picking out beautiful clothes from...
GLORIA GUINNESS Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they...
GLORIA STEINEM Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the ge...
GLORIA STEINEM The first problem for all of us men and women is not to learn, but to unlearn.
GLORIA STEINEM The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.
GLORIA STEINEM A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
GLORIA STEINEM Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the stat...
GLORIA STEINEM If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
GLORIA STEINEM Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
GLORIA STEINEM I can't mate in captivity.
GLORIA STEINEM As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.
GLORIA SWANSON I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.
GLORIA SWANSON Women are more than smart enough to see that McCain's policies are a disaster... He is anti- eve...
GLORIA STEINEM Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.
GLORIA STEINEM Many times, working is kind of like channeling, and I really don't know what's going to fall...
GLORIA VANDERBILT Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years...
GLORIA STEINEM I don't want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy.
GLORIA ESTEFAN I'm so happy that we're finally hearing the stories and voices of women who make America. We...
GLORIA STEINEM Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
GLORIA STEINEM Comprehensive climate legislation must be passed so that we can ensure a world where this and future...
GLORIA REUBEN You're always the person you were when you were born," she says impatiently. "You just keep finding ...
GLORIA STEINEM I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.
GLORIA SWANSON