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Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our place child labor and raw immigrant girls who would work for next to nothing.

You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.

Our Constitution does not profess to have been established simply by the majority, but by 'the people' - the minority as much as the majority.

I love polarizing people.

The human brain long ago evolved a mechanism for rewarding us when we encountered new information: a little shot of dopamine in the brain each time we learned something new. Across evolutionary history, compulsively seeking information was adaptive behavior.

What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.

How can people in other countries who are trying to grasp our plan of democracy avoid stumbling over our logic when we deny the first steps in democracy to our women?

Brexit is a ceaseless grind of conversations about customs unions and backstops. Anything that can add an air of whimsical, childlike wonder to proceedings can only be a good thing.

If your budget is in good shape and you are not indebted too much, you can do what the U.S. did at the beginning of the '30s - building railways, etc., but when you don't have that, you must be far more cautious.

I want to play a character I've never been before-a crazy serial killer like Charlize Theron in Monster. I'd love to have to shave my head.

You never know about the art world because it's a matter of opinion. If you look at old art like Rembrandt and Vermeer, it's not completely a matter of opinion. The pictures confront you, and you see exactly what it is. In modern art, a lot of it is suggestive, and it becomes a matter of opinion.

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.

Canada has, at times, represented itself as a country in a valiant struggle against powerful and menacing agents that are indifferent to its special practices and sensibilities - most especially American culture. It's the old, outdated garrison mentality.

I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.

The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.

We are so distracted and focused on what's next, we can fail to see what is actually in front of us.

The E.U. initially decided to end the isolation of Turkish Cyprus, to balance the accession of Cyprus. But the E.U. has not carried through on its promise.

Really, every woman is an example to me, because as women we go through so much pain. We have to live this perfect life when we are messed up inside. We all go through trials and tribulations.

I've played the drums for so long, I can't imagine saying goodbye to it.