But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
GERTRUDE STEINHow do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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