#liberate

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#before #job #liberated #liberated woman #marriage

When I was 18 I worked with the Ringling Brothers circus, taking care of menagerie animals. I used to rather deliberately risk my life with the big cats. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#brothers #care #cats #circus #deliberately

Be-bop wasn't developed in any deliberate way. ↗

— Thelonious Monk

#be-bop #deliberate #developed #way

It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields. ↗

— David Douglass

#deserved #disappointing #embarrassing #experts #fields

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#anything #deliberately #deserve #does #length

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#against #city #confuse #decadent #destroying

Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#american #associate #been #corporate #creative

I'm something of a history buff. It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces. ↗

— Cary Elwes

#buff #deliberate #films #history #i

I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me. ↗

— Bram Fischer

#any #court #deliberate #disrespectful #fear

We go in to liberate Cuba, but Cuba still isn't free; we don't really think through what we'll do after the initial treaty is signed, but we're still occupying. There's chaos and torture and finally an outcry. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#chaos #cuba #finally #free #go