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To understand a literary style, consider what it omits. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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To understand someone, find out how he spends his money. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

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I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. ↗

— Anderson Cooper

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Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

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I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not. ↗

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

#audience #comedy #comes #doing #experience

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear. ↗

— Billy Corgan

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There are things you stand up for because it's right. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

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In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote. ↗

— Billy Corgan

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